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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

#broad #conservative #country #environmental #environmental problems

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#back #being #causing #collapsing #destructive

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#clean #cost #incentives #intelligent #internalized

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#change #coherent #either #forces #future

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

#capital #depend #down #heading #human

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#go #had #hearing #i #life

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#dream #illusion #lime #right #twig

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#best #english #how #i #jobs

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#i #i remember #mother #mud #putting

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#fiction #i #interested #more #not interested