Paul Hawken Quotes
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If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
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The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.
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All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.
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Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.
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The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
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At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.
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Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
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Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
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The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.
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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.