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" It's very complicated when you are reorganizing territories under different ministries. We have to get them all together and transfer jurisdictions. It's a bureaucratic slalom course we have to ski through, but it can be done. "

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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. "

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

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

" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

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

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

Douglas Tompkins

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

" Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Look at how fast technology is developing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "