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Douglas Tompkins

I don’t think capitalism can survive.

– Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

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

Douglas Tompkins

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you’re doing, or don’t do it.

– Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

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.

– Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

There are emotional relationships in any business.

– Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

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

– Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.

– Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

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

Douglas Tompkins

Capitalism doesn’t function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It’s like pushing a giant monster under water that’s gasping for air. It goes nuts.

– Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

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

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 a bureaucratic slalom course we have to ski through, but it can be done.

– Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins

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

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