American - Businessman | March 20, 1943 - December 8, 2015
Look at how fast technology is developing.
Douglas Tompkins
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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.
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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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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 know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.
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If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.
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I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.
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These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.
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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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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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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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Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.
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