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" I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

" I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I'm sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony - which is the land - very carefully. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

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

" We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way. "

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

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

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

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

" I don't think capitalism can survive. "

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