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

Douglas Tompkins

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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

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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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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

Douglas Tompkins

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

Douglas Tompkins

" 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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" 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

" I don't think capitalism can survive. "

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

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" 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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" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "

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" 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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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

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

Douglas Tompkins

" Look at how fast technology is developing. "

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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

" 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

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

Douglas Tompkins

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

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

Douglas Tompkins

" 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

" 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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" 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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