I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

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.

People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

I have a nice bookshelf in my office, but not my house. I'm crass, but not that crass.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

I will walk where failures fear to walk.