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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
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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.

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.

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.

The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law.

We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina.

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.

If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.

If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

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Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.