The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

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.

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

There’s no matter here you can’t re-matter into love.

Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

I dream, therefore I exist.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

It's definitely important to stay true to yourself and stay close to those people who you were close to before [becoming famous]. Family, your friends, and just not let that outside stuff get to you.