Traveling Is My Form Of Self-education.

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.

Once You Educate Yourself, You're Left With Choices.

We Choose To Believe That The Granite Is Alive. If Life Is Movement, Then Rock - With Its Atoms Flying Around Like Stars In Cosmos - Is Alive.

...it's Always Been Difficult For Us To Lead An Examined Life As A Corporation. I've Always Felt Like A Company Has The Responsibility To Not Wait For The Government To Tell It What To Do, Or To Wait For The Consumer To Tell It What To Do, But As Soon As It Finds Out It's Doing Something Wrong, Stop Doing It.

Traveling Is My Form Of Self-education.