You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

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.

Only one kind of religion cannot give peace to everyone. Whatever ‘degree’ one is sitting at, that ‘degree’ of religion he requires.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.

So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.