I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.

The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

There’s usually more than one way to complete a task. I will not stay stuck in my ways. I will remain motivated and open-minded.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it anything more than that is advertising.

The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.

Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.