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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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I don't think capitalism can survive. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia. "

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

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

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" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

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" 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. "

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

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" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt. "

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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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