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Paul Hawken

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What we know about Paul Hawken comes primarily from their words — and those words are worth your time. The range of their thinking — from Environmental to Work — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 11 quotes from Paul Hawken, each offering a different angle on Environmental, Work, Technology, Leadership, and Health. One quote that captures their voice: "All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."

“I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.”

— Paul Hawken

Environmental

All Quotes by Paul Hawken

“I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.”

— Paul Hawken

Environmental

“We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.”

— Paul Hawken

Environmental

“We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.”

— Paul Hawken

Environmental

“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.”

— Paul Hawken

Art

“People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.”

— Paul Hawken

Technology

“We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.”

— Paul Hawken

Health

“All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.”

— Paul Hawken

Change