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- 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.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020