Author: Douglas Tompkins

Quotes

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

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

- Douglas Tompkins

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

- 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.

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

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Douglas Tompkins

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.

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

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

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

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