American - Businessman | March 20, 1943 - December 8, 2015
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
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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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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.
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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.
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I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.
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There are emotional relationships in any business.
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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 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 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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I don't think capitalism can survive.
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