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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'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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" 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. "

" I don't think capitalism can survive. "

" If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. "

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

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

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

" If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye. "

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

" Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone. "

" 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. "

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

" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. "

" It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work. "

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

" Look at how fast technology is developing. "

" There are emotional relationships in any business. "

" 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. "

" 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. "