Douglas Tompkins Quotes

If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia out there in the world, but it is what it is. I am who I am, and the people in my life are who they are, and they love us, hate us, for whatever reason. It is what it is.

Jillian Michaels

LifeLoveHateI AmPeopleWorld

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

Jim Bakker

GodBestConstructionWorldWhy

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

Jim Coleman

New YorkNewOutsideUpStateDC

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.

John Breaux

TimePeopleThinkGrowMoreRoom

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

John McTiernan

MeActionMoviesDidBeforeAround

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

John Yoo

FireAmericanMoreSoldiersOutside

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.

Tom Hodgkinson

DancePeopleTelevisionKnowActive

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

Marvin Sapp

PeopleYouTragedyWantUnderstand

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more.

Mohsin Hamid

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Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

ManEarthCreatePlacesReasonHigh

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

Thomas Kinkade

ArtLieArtistWholeAbout

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

Lindsey Vonn

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