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" As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in. "

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" Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside. "

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" If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale. "

" Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need. "

" If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye. "

" I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else. "

" I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it. "

" Capitalism doesn't function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It's like pushing a giant monster under water that's gasping for air. It goes nuts. "

" Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us. "

" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

" If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it. "

" These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need. "

" When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits. "

" If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. "

" Look at how fast technology is developing. "

" Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt. "

" I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me. "

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" I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out. "

" When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously. "

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" Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone. "

" If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot. "

" I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work. "

" The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs. "

" National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet. "

" I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. "

" I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day. "

" The Canadian power line is going to industrialize Patagonia, and it is going to discount the one economic card the region has to play, which is the tourism. "

" It's very complicated when you are reorganizing territories under different ministries. We have to get them all together and transfer jurisdictions. It's a bureaucratic slalom course we have to ski through, but it can be done. "

" I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself. "

" People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small scale, depending on their ability. Those who can do a lot because of their position and potential should jump right in there. "

" Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. "