Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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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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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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There are emotional relationships in any business.
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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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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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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.
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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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National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
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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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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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I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.
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I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
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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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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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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 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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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'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
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I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
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I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.