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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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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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 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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" 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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" 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'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 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 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 feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

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

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" I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to 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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" 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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" 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 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 tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me. "

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