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 in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits. ”

As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in. ”

When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. ”

There are emotional relationships in any business. ”

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself. ”