From What Is to What If Quotes

“the living world points the way towards imagining new economic models, developing climate resilience, fostering social inclusion”
― Rob Hopkins, From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

“Our imaginations are rooted in the natural world.”
― Rob Hopkins, From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

“People don’t need new facts – they need a new story … change their story and change their behaviour.”
― Rob Hopkins, From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

“Art is the summoning of attention,”
― Rob Hopkins, From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

“when nature is so beautiful, I am not conscious of myself any more, and the picture comes to me as if in a dream.”
― Rob Hopkins, From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

“It seems as though most of us have less and less space to think creatively or imaginatively, if at all. Even among people who work within the ‘creative industries’, their imagination seems increasingly harnessed to create demand for things nobody really needs, whose production is increasingly pushing our human and ecological systems to the brink of collapse – almost as if imagination has been coopted in the service of our own extinction.”
― Rob Hopkins, From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want