I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.
I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.
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.
Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.
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.
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.
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.
National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.
If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye.
Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.
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.
Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.
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.
