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Paul Hawken is an American environmentalist, writer, and entrepreneur. He is known for his profound insights into environmental sustainability and his contributions to the environmental movement.

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Famous Paul Hawken Quotes

“The unraveling of our home planet is a mental disorder in which thoughs and feelings are so impaired they have no relationship to external reality. Wild is the opposite. It is when our thoughts, feelings, and actions are exquisitely sensity to our relationship with the living world and each other.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“In New York City, more than 700 languages are spoken...There are more languages per square mile in Queens than anyplace in the world.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“US trucks and automobiles kill more than one million vertebrates daily.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“...more than 90 percent of birds feed upon them (moths).”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“We have a cognitive bias, dismissing plants and trees as inferior to other life-forms.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“Forests capture the most carbon dioxide on land, and existing mature, primary forests are responsible for the great majority...Protecting existing forests would have far more impact between now and 2100 than newly planted forests.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“There are 2.5 million ants for each human being, and the dominant, no-questions-asked majority are female.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“Atomism is the belief that the world can be understood by studying its most minuscule particles, cells or atoms.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“Tallgrass prairies that covered one third of the United States are reduced to less than 4 percent of their range. The shifting baseline syndrome means people see gradual changes only over their lifetime. Unless it is a recent event no one sees a missing wetland. The Earth we inhabit is accepted as normal because we lack a historical perspective.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“The unraveling of our home planet is a mental disorder in which thoughts and feelings are so impaired they have no relationship to external reality. Wild is the opposite. It is when our thoughts, feelings, and actions are exquisitely sensitive to our relationship with the living world and each other.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“We have reduced carbon to an errant element, the culprit in a civilization bent on self-termination...Carbon is a window into the entirety of life, with all its beauty, secrets, and complexity.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“French chemist Joseph Fourier calculated that the Earth was warmer than it should be given the heat hitting the planet. In 1824, he theorized that gases in the atmosphere must trap heat. In 1837, he predicted that overall levels of warming could change depending on human behavior and activity.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“Clark's Nutcrackers remember where they buried thousands of pine nuts in up to ten thousand caches within a fifteen-mile range.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.”

“The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.”

Inspiring Environment Future Intelligent Environmental Endure Simplicity Intelligence Compassionate Prosperous Sustainable Living Prosperous Future

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“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.”

Stills Age Order Dark Darkness Environment Society Fields Down And Environmental Planes Commerce Insects Dark Ages Predator Spray Pesticides

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“We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.”

Wells Use Form Process Economy Environment Waste Percent Nuclear Thrown Storage Injection Landfills Nuclear Waste

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“Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.”

Enough Today Social Powerful Environment Produce Planets Mechanism Reverse Degradation

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“It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.”

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About the Author

Born: February 8, 1946
Known for: Environmentalist
Quotes: 94

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Carbon: The Book of LifeRelated source material

Growing a BusinessRelated source material

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the WorldRelated source material

Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial RevolutionRelated source material

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It ComingRelated source material

The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of SustainabilityRelated source material

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