146 Quotes by Paul Hawken

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

We are the only species on this planet without full employment.

Don't go to business school.

There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural primacy over corporate hegemony, and a rising demand for radical transparency in politics and corporate decision making. It has been said that environmentalism failed as a movement, or worse yet, died. It is the other way around. Everyone on earth will be an environmentalist in the not too distant future, driven there by necessity and experience.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

What a great time to be born, what a great time to be alive, because this generation gets to completely change this world.

How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?

While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.

Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.