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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. "

Douglas Tompkins

Argentina

Protection

Park

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Douglas Tompkins

Funny

Seriously

" I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it. "

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

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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

Douglas Tompkins

Myself

Tell

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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. "