Douglas Tompkins Professions : Environmentalist Born : 1943 Died : December 8, 2015 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Douglas Tompkins For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty. Douglas Tompkins going-out soul desire It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. Douglas Tompkins truth reality past There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet. Douglas Tompkins walls rock serious weather 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 every-day phone day cell-phone If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot. Douglas Tompkins your down you country 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 real eating work world I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. Douglas Tompkins bond i-feel feel strong I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work. Douglas Tompkins short getting work long If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. Douglas Tompkins kiss you justice goodbye 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 phone you cell-phone culture 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 best like living expression I don't want to see anything natural get hurt. Douglas Tompkins anything see hurt want People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small scale, depending on their ability. Those who can do a lot because of their position and potential should jump right in there. Douglas Tompkins realize free small people Look at how fast technology is developing. Douglas Tompkins fast how look technology 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 you society god believe 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 need things fashion people I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out. Douglas Tompkins out been things know National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. Douglas Tompkins national standard conservation gold I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet. Douglas Tompkins planet dead social-justice justice I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself. Douglas Tompkins never myself easy life Similar Authors Bill McKibben environmentalist Bhagat Puran Singh environmentalist David R. Brower environmentalist David Foreman environmentalist Ian Kiernan environmentalist Chris Baines environmentalist All Authors
