Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.
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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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There are emotional relationships in any business.
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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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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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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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I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
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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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I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
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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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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.