"A good day is when no one shows up...
and you don't have to go anywhere. ~ Burt"
and you don't have to go anywhere. ~ Burt"
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| Burt source: Boing Boing |
Hippy Burt, the cool guy bee keeper vegetarian, source and inspiration for the cruelty-free company Burt's Bees, has moved on. Back in the day the company he co-founded screwed him but he wasn't fazed.
"Shavitz didn’t seem to mind missing out on 93 percent of a windfall.
“In the long run, I got the land, and land is everything,” he told a filmmaker for the 2013 documentary “Burt’s Buzz.” “Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don’t need it.”
This critique extended to corporate culture: “I had no desire to be an upward-mobile rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car,” he said."
~Washington Post
I loved that guy. Happy trails Burt.
2 comments:
Burt was an interesting character. Kind of ordinary, in his own way, and yet he seems to have lived an extraordinarily honest life. And I like his motorcycle.
And he stayed fit. Always a plus.
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