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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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Look at how fast technology is developing. "