Paul Hawken Quotes

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

This beautiful Earth that we have, this gift that the Universe has given us is precious beyond measure, precious beyond imagination, and we are part of it and we must treat it with Love, respect, and reverence.

The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?

It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.

I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.

Folks who are alive today need to wake up and do what they can to stop abusing the planet, and find ways to preserve the web of life. That's where the soul is headed. It is time for us to become wounded healers.

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.

I care about this beautiful planet that we all share. This is a home that we have to leave in good shape for the next generations.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.