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Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.

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

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National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

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

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does...

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.

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...

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.

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