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I don't think capitalism can survive.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Capitalism
Survive
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Look at how fast technology is developing.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Developing
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I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Argentina
Chile
Bond
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I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Celebrations
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National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Conservation
Gold
Gold Standard
National Parks
Parks
Standard
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It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Behaviour
Patriot
Determines
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Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Philanthropy
Component
National Park
Park
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I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Death Myself Me
Hurry
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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Social Justice
Supporter
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It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Truth
Past
Reality
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If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Goodbye
Social Justice
Destroy
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I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Antiques
Picking
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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 / Environmentalist
Chains
Parks
Selling
Life Work People
Clothing
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Equity
Expression
National Parks
Parks
Social
National
Paying
Planet
Rent
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Granite
Weather
Wet
Border
Walls
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Long Time
Time Where Long
Anyway
Time Long Living
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Conservation
Critics
Special
Special Interests
Aside
Set
Interests
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Cell Phone
Horrible
Cell
Microwave
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Conservation
Heat
Scale
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Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Architectural
Establish
Park
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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 / Environmentalist
Measure
Metric
Resource
Systems
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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 / Environmentalist
Dues
Carrying
Out Here
Rent
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Pushing
Something Else
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Tourism
Card
Discount
Region
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Capable
Milieu
More And More
Sucked
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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 / Environmentalist
Argentina
Chile
Form
Protection
Idea
Choose
Current
Current Law
Exists
Highest Form
Landscapes
National
National Park
Park
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For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Desire
Going Out
Soul
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Capitalism
Demonstrating
Destroying
No Doubt
Whatsoever
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Air
Cutting
Lakes
Patriot
Rivers
Your Country Own
Oceans
Ruining
Trees
Waters
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Selling
People Fashion Things
Countless
Desires
Industries
Intellectually
Manufacture
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
God Society Believe
Exists
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Capitalism
Eurozone
Function
Nuts
Pushing
Contract
Giant
Monster
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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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Confines
Escaped
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Cell Phone
Devices
Function
Logic
Cell
Dumber
Immersed
Imposed
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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Backwards
Cell Phone
Seconds
Cell
Device
Wrapped
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
American Foreign Policy
Conservation
Despite
Disappointment
Example
Foreign Policy
Long Way
Policy
Best Great World
Wild
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Architect
Great American
Infrastructure
Public Eye
Thrust
Designed
National Park
Park
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Scale
Depending
Imaginations
Jump
Small Scale
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Complicated
Bureaucratic
Ski
Territories
Transfer
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Argentina
Chile
Begun
Carefully
Citizen
Facto
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Flew
Nuclear
Rumours
Setting
Site
Waste
Jewish
Establishing
Jewish State
Oddly
Theories
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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.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Biodiversity
Ecosystems
Generations
Given
Parks
Protect
Thrust
Young
Sure
Nobody
Changing
Future Generations
Landscapes
Main
Value
Young People
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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 / Environmentalist
Acceleration
Consuming
Manufacturing
Mechanism
Non Stop
Processing
Real Work
Economic Activity
Narrow
Satisfy
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