Evil Doesn’t Have To Be An Overt

What They Don't Realize Is That I'm Not In The Business To Make Clothes. I'm Not In The Business To Make More Money For Myself, For Christ's Sake. This Is The Reason Patagonia Exists - To Put Into Action The Recommendations I Read About In Books To Avoid Environmental Collapse. That's The Reason I'm In Business - To Try To Clean Up Our Own Act, And Try To Influence Other Companies To Do The Right Thing, And Try To Influence Our Customers To Do The Right Thing. So We're Not Going To Change.

Yeah, Leading An Examined Life, I Always Say, Is A Pain In The Ass. It Adds An Element Of Complexity To Business That Most Businessmen Don't Want To Hear About. They Just Want To Call A Fabric Manufacturer, And Say, "hey, Give Us 10,000 Yards Of Shirting."

Nature Doesn't Like Empires. It Doesn't Like Accumulation In One Place, It Doesn't Like Monoculture. It's Always Trying To Make Diverse Species. It Wants To Spread Everything Out. And We're Constantly Trying To Hold Everything In.

The Word Adventure Has Gotten Overused. For Me, When Everything Goes Wrong - That's When Adventure Starts

We're Not Citizens Anymore. We're Consumers. That's What We're Called. It's Just Like Being An Alcoholic And Being In Denial That You're An Alcoholic. We're In Denial That Each And Every One Of Us Is The Problem. And Until We Face Up To That, Nothing's Going To Happen.