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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 that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Acceleration Activity Computer Consuming Days Does Eating Economic Economic Activity Just Manufacturing Mechanism Narrow Needs Non-Stop Our Own Processing Real Real Work Resources Satisfy Up Work World Year 365 Days

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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.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Air Country Cutting Down Lakes Much Oceans Own Patriot Rivers Ruining Trees Waters You Your

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

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Anything Get Hurt Natural See Want

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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.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Big Border Granite Lot Rock Serious Toward Up Walls Weather Wet

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

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Getting Long Short Work

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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.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Ability Because Depending Everyone Free Imaginations Jump Large Lot People Position Potential Realize Right Scale Should Small Something Those Who

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Look at how fast technology is developing.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Developing Fast How Look Technology

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When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Believe Exists God Growing Growing Up Kids Limits Paradise Road Same Society Tell Up You

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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.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Buy Countless Desires Fashion Get Had Industries Intellectually Manufacture Most Need Our People Products Selling Things Were

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

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Antiques Been Every Know Out Picking Stores Them Things

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 20th, 1943

Died: December 8th, 2015

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