Author: Douglas Tompkins

Quotes

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

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

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

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

There are emotional relationships in any business.

There are emotional relationships in any business.

- 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

Look at how fast technology is developing.

Look at how fast technology is developing.

- Douglas Tompkins

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