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Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins
American Businessman
Born: Mar 20, 1943
Died: Dec 8, 2015
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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. Douglas Tompkins
You Culture Cell Phone Phone Backwards Think Seconds Everything Wrapped Entire Through Device Without Up Cell Goes Just Hold Production Your
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 microwave every day. Douglas Tompkins
Day Cell Phone Every Day Phone Every Horrible Head Putting Like Know Because How Cell Microwave Your Using
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 that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs. Douglas Tompkins
Work Needs World Year Own Our Resources Eating Economic Economic Activity Computer Consuming Days Acceleration Non-Stop Does Narrow Real Up Just Real Work Processing Manufacturing Mechanism Activity Satisfy
I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. Douglas Tompkins
Strong Argentina Feel Chile Bond
If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. Douglas Tompkins
You Justice Kiss First Earth Destroy Goodbye Want Social Planet Social Justice
I don't want to see anything natural get hurt. Douglas Tompkins
Hurt Natural See Get Want Anything
Look at how fast technology is developing. Douglas Tompkins
Technology Developing Look How Fast
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. Douglas Tompkins
God You Paradise Believe Society Kids Tell Road Limits Exists Up Same Growing Growing Up
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. Douglas Tompkins
Buy Fashion People Our Had Countless Most Industries Were Intellectually Selling Get Manufacture Products Things Desires Need
I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out. Douglas Tompkins
Every Out Picking Know Been Antiques Stores Them Things
I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet. Douglas Tompkins
Justice Supporter Dead Social Planet Social Justice
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. Douglas Tompkins
Funny Seriously Setting Jewish State State States Rumours Would Would-Be Both Taken Were Oddly Began Up Very Site Being Establishing Which Working Flew Theories United Waste United States Nuclear Jewish
We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia. Douglas Tompkins
Work Pay Live Our Earth Out Out Here Carrying Rent Doing Dues Here Need
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. Douglas Tompkins
Single National Every Philanthropy Component Some Park Had Private National Park
Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone. Douglas Tompkins
Good Capitalism Everyone Bad Sort Ultimately May Things
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
You Game Political Scale Willing Take Get Heat Land Then Large Large-Scale Conservation
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 now. Douglas Tompkins
Time Long Long Time Living Point Sort Been Where Anyway Working Now
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. Douglas Tompkins
Law Protection National Park Argentina Highest Highest Form Idea Because Exists National Park Current Current Law Chile Form Really Landscapes Choose
If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye. Douglas Tompkins
Great You Vision National Great American Eye Architect Architects Guys Park Argentina Take Had Thrust Idea Like National Park American Public Infrastructure Public Eye Who Designed Early
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. Douglas Tompkins
Become Understanding More More And More Because Becomes Get Capable Milieu Less Sucked Technological
I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it. Douglas Tompkins
You Parents Pleasure Out Learned Doing Get
I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning. Douglas Tompkins
Class Business World Out Somehow Something More Had Feel Escaped Get Just Confines Break Meaning Really Fortunate Lucky

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