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
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and were surrendering it all at the same time. – 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
The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it. – Benjamin Haydon