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


Douglas Tompkins

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DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
DOUGLAS ADAMS If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your pe...
TOM DOUGLAS I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mea...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish u...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, th...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, ri...
TOM DOUGLAS What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
DOUGLAS ADAMS The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
DOUGLAS ADAMS As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
DOUGLAS HURD Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS