Paul Hawken Life Quotations

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.