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

Douglas Tompkins

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I don't think capitalism can survive. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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