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Paul Hawken Quotes

Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 8, 1946

Topics

Business Water Economics Proud Ship

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

Work Good Pizza Me Fly You

Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.

King Alive Now Dead Because Only

My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

Father Business Dinner Restaurant

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Poetry College Read Much Really

Everyone has their special strength. And my strength is to have the ball and start good things with it.

Strength Good Good Things Start Ball

Where I grew up in Vermont, there is no municipal garbage removal. You have to bring your trash to the dump every weekend. Something like three hours on Saturday morning, the entire town goes in. It is actually a very efficient place to do politics. I would go to the garbage dump, get petitions signed, give out literature, talk to voters.

Morning Politics Saturday Weekend Go

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

Wife Want Always Tortured Soulful

Training is expensive, and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.

Training Person Kid Up Expensive

The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

Michael Weatherly

Life Time Me Rest Think My Life

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

Leader Respect Voice Want Way Rush

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

World Old Native Americans Return

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

Douglas Coupland

Time Art Space Writing Visual About

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