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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Park
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are emotional relationships in any business.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.
- Confines
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think capitalism can survive.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
- Granite
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at how fast technology is developing.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.
- Facto
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I'm sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony - which is the land - very carefully.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020