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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.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Antiques
#Every
#Know
#Them
#Things
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.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Buy
#Fashion
#Need
#People
#Things
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.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Cell Phone
#Day
#Every Day
#Know
#Phone
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.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Believe
#God
#Limits
#Paradise
#Society
Look at how fast technology is developing.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Developing
#Fast
#How
#Look
#Technology
I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Celebrations
#Getting
#Long
#Short
#Work
There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Big
#Rock
#Serious
#Walls
#Weather
National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Conservation
#Gold
#National
#Parks
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.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Ability
#Free
#Jump
#People
#Potential
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Critics
#Land
#Opposition
#See
#Special
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Every
#Had
#Park
#Philanthropy
#Private
I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Anything
#Get
#Hurt
#See
#Want
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.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Doing
#Earth
#Live
#Rent
#Work
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
#Air
#Country
#Down
#Own
#Patriot
I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.
- Douglas Tompkins
#Doing
#Just
#Nobody
#Society
#Something
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