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" These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need. "
Douglas Tompkins
Need
Clothes
Work
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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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" 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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" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "
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Conservation
Gold
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" 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. "
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" I don't think capitalism can survive. "
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" 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. "
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" I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. "
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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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Down
" 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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Great
Disappointment
Best
" 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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Heat
Political
Game
" 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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Future
You
Value
" I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me. "
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Me
Myself
Tell
" 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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Now
Cell Phone
Phone
" Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. "
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Single
Had
Park
" 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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Best
Equity
Rent
" 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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Out
Once
Each
" 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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Up
Funny
Seriously
" 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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Out
Doing
Get
" I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself. "
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Never
Myself
Make
" I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet. "
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Planet
Dead
Social Justice
" 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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Products
Selling
Need
" If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. "
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Kiss
Justice
Want
" 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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Society
Growing Up
God
" Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone. "
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Things
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Everyone
" 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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Work
Need
" 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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Understanding
Technological
Become
" I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work. "
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Celebrations
Short
Long
" 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. "
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Jump
Free
Potential
" 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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Day
Cell Phone
Phone
" Look at how fast technology is developing. "
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How
Technology
Look