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.
There are emotional relationships in any business.
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.
These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.
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.
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.
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.
The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law.
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.
I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
Look at how fast technology is developing.
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.
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.
I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.
National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
