Paul Hawken Quotes

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The world is interconnected and causations run in many directions at once.

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.

An individual life is not important except as it affects other lives.

We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Everything you touch touches you.

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.

If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.