Paul Hawken Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken.

  Paul Hawken

  Future, Air, Broken

  "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times". Book by Paul Loeb, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014.

• The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their wants and needs is stripping earth of its biotic capacity to produce life; a climactic burst of consumption by a single species is overwhelming the skies, earth, waters, and fauna.

  Paul Hawken

  Sky, People, Water

• 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. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.

  Paul Hawken

  Dark, Order, Water

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