Douglas Tompkins

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…

— Douglas Tompkins

People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small scale, depending on their…

— Douglas Tompkins

I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.

— Douglas Tompkins

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

— Douglas Tompkins

I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I…

— Douglas Tompkins

When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or,…

— Douglas Tompkins

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just…

— Douglas Tompkins

Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

— Douglas Tompkins

There are emotional relationships in any business.

— Douglas Tompkins

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

— Douglas Tompkins

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

— Douglas Tompkins

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

— Douglas Tompkins

Look at how fast technology is developing.

— Douglas Tompkins

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

— Douglas Tompkins

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time…

— Douglas Tompkins

There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and…

— Douglas Tompkins

It's very complicated when you are reorganizing territories under different ministries. We have to get them all together and transfer jurisdictions. It's…

— Douglas Tompkins

If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers…

— Douglas Tompkins

The Canadian power line is going to industrialize Patagonia, and it is going to discount the one economic card the region has…

— Douglas Tompkins

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

— Douglas Tompkins

We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with…

— Douglas Tompkins

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources,…

— Douglas Tompkins

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

— Douglas Tompkins