46 Quotes by Douglas Tompkins

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.

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.

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.

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.

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.

If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

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'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.