46 Quotes by Douglas Tompkins

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

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.

There are emotional relationships in any business.

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

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.

I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.