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It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.
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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'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
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There are emotional relationships in any business.
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National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
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I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.
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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.
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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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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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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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I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
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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'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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I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.
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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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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 tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.
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Look at how fast technology is developing.
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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.