We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.