If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first. Douglas Tompkins More Quotes by Douglas Tompkins More Quotes From 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-outsouldesire It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. Douglas Tompkins truthrealitypast 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 wallsrockseriousweather 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-dayphonedaycell-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 yourdownyoucountry 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 realeatingworkworld I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina. Douglas Tompkins bondi-feelfeelstrong I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work. Douglas Tompkins shortgettingworklong 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 phoneyoucell-phoneculture 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 bestlikelivingexpression I don't want to see anything natural get hurt. Douglas Tompkins anythingseehurtwant 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 realizefreesmallpeople Look at how fast technology is developing. Douglas Tompkins fasthowlooktechnology 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 yousocietygodbelieve 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 needthingsfashionpeople I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out. Douglas Tompkins outbeenthingsknow National Parks are the gold standard for conservation. Douglas Tompkins nationalstandardconservationgold I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet. Douglas Tompkins planetdeadsocial-justicejustice I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself. Douglas Tompkins nevermyselfeasylife These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need. Douglas Tompkins clothesworklifepeople
