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Douglas Tompkins Quotes

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.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1943 - December 8, 2015

Topics

Great Best I Am Disappointment World

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

Jody Watley

Flower Good Growth Responsibility

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Stephen Spender

Great Poetry Go Beyond Always He

Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.

Tucker Carlson

Children Worth Down Born Vegetables

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Cool Think America Pretty Like

The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.

Jason Epstein

Process New Will Old Storage Cost

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

Diana Cooper

Age Ugly Worse Goes Getting Thing

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

William Glasser

Teacher Interesting Conversation Talk

I know that I'm with the person I'm supposed to be with.

Ryan Gosling

Person Know Supposed

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

Mark Strong

Time Moment Day Child Table Sitting

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

Mark Ruffalo

Think Acting Three Quit Days Four

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.

Leo Kottke

Time Fun Think Thinking You Look

I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.

Klay Thompson

Best People College Me Think Credit