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" If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. "
Douglas Tompkins
Kiss
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone. "
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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. "
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" Look at how fast technology is developing. "
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" I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself. "
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" I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me. "
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" Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside. "
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" I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work. "
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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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Long Time
" 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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Line
" 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
" 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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World
Capitalism
Doubt
" 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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" 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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Each
" 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. "
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Jump
Free
Potential
" 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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" 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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" I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it. "
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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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Work
" 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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Growing Up
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