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" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "
Douglas Tompkins
Conservation
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" I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work. "
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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 want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. "
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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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" 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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" I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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