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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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

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

" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

" 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. "

" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

" I don't think capitalism can survive. "

" It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot. "

" 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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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" We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world. "

" Look at how fast technology is developing. "

" I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet. "

" There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Douglas Tompkins

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" I don't want to see anything natural get hurt. "

" 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. "