Chains Quote by Douglas Tompkins

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

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It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.

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Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

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The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the…

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I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

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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.

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I don't think capitalism can survive.

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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…

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Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

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Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best…

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For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the…

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Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling…

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Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

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