46 Quotes by Douglas Tompkins

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

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 may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

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.

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.

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.

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.