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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Look at how fast technology is developing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think capitalism can survive. "

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

" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

" 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. "

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