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 Copy Share Image
The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
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… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
