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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.

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

Douglas Tompkins

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

Douglas Tompkins

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.

Douglas Tompkins

There are emotional relationships in any business.

Douglas Tompkins

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

Douglas Tompkins

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

Douglas Tompkins

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.

Douglas Tompkins

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

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

Douglas Tompkins

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

Douglas Tompkins

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

Douglas Tompkins

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.

Douglas Tompkins

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

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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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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 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.

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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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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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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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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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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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