The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

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.

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.

To make or not to make a choice is still considered you made a choice as it was choice to choose or not to choose to make a choice.

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.