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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

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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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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

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

" 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. "

" Look at how fast technology is developing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

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

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

Douglas Tompkins

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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