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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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Doing
Just
Society
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" There are emotional relationships in any business. "
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Any
" These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need. "
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Need
Clothes
Work
" I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now. "
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Been
Long
Long Time
" I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. "
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Argentina
Bond
Strong
" 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
Up
Funny
Seriously
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Air
Country
Down
" 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. "
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Live
Work
Need
" 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. "
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Capitalism
Water
See
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Caring
Feel
I Am
" 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. "
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Great
Disappointment
Best
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Products
Selling
Need
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Day
Cell Phone
Phone
" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "
Douglas Tompkins
Conservation
Gold
Standard
" Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside. "
Douglas Tompkins
Lot
See
Special
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Walls
Rock
Serious
" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "
Douglas Tompkins
Nature
Measure
Our
" 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
Eye
Early
American
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Argentina
Protection
Park
" The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law. "
Douglas Tompkins
Future
You
Value
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Lucky
Feel
Business
" I don't think capitalism can survive. "
Douglas Tompkins
Think
Survive
Capitalism
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Done
You
Together
" I don't want to see anything natural get hurt. "
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See
Want
Anything
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Society
Growing Up
God
" If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. "
Douglas Tompkins
Kiss
Justice
Want
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Jump
Free
Potential
" Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. "
Douglas Tompkins
Single
Had
Park
" 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. "
Douglas Tompkins
Which
Going
Line
" It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot. "
Douglas Tompkins
Really
Patriot
You
" Look at how fast technology is developing. "
Douglas Tompkins
How
Technology
Look