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

Douglas Tompkins

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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

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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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" 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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" Look at how fast technology is developing. "

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

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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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