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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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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