I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you’re doing, or don’t do it. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
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. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
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. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I’m sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony – which is the land – very carefully. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Deskilling devices – they make us dumber. We’re immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
