"What if our economy were organised not around the lifeless abstractions of neoclassical economics and accountancy but around the biological realities of nature? What if generally accepted accounting practice booked natural and human capital not as a free amenity in putative inexhaustible supply but as a finite and integrally valuable factor of production?"

     Fragment of "Natural Capitalism" by PAUL HAWKEN, AMORY LOVINS & L.HUNTER LOVINS