Quote by Paul Hawken
We assume that everythings becoming more efficient, and in an imme

We assume that everythings becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense thats true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. – Paul Hawken

Other quotes by Paul Hawken

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

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environmental
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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

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environmental
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Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken

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Leadership
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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didnt do anything academically around the arts. – Aisha Tyler

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environmental

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? – Bruce Sterling

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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. – Pat Buckley

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environmental

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didnt have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. – Jeremy Rifkin

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environmental

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Honk if you hate noise pollution. – Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker

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Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis — German National Socialism. – Hermann Goering

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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but Ive done many. – Robert Indiana

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