Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins

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.

Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins

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
Douglas Tompkins

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins

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.

Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins

I don't think capitalism can survive.