I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet, — Derrick Jensen Culture Copy Share Image
Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy. — Derrick Jensen Ability Copy Share Image
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. — Derrick Jensen Delusion Copy Share Image
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. — Derrick Jensen Experience Copy Share Image
If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned. — Derrick Jensen Community Copy Share Image
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. — Derrick Jensen Civilization Copy Share Image
“The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.” — Derrick Jensen Mentorship Copy Share Image
“I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.” — Derrick Jensen Culture Copy Share Image
“I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting… — Derrick Jensen Atrocities Copy Share Image
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely… — Derrick Jensen Biology Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Degradation Copy Share Image
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings,… — Derrick Jensen Being human Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance,… — Derrick Jensen Action Copy Share Image
“Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic… — Derrick Jensen Authority Copy Share Image
I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups,… — Derrick Jensen Attention Copy Share Image
People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of… — Derrick Jensen Ability Copy Share Image
“Last December I saw an advertisement outside an electronics store. There was a little boy, delirious with delight, surrounded by computers, stereos,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“If you’re comfortable with who you are, however, it becomes no problem to let others be their own selves around you: you… — Derrick Jensen Faith Copy Share Image
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to… — Derrick Jensen Aggression Copy Share Image
“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the… — Derrick Jensen Life Copy Share Image
“The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, not the wild forest. One… — Derrick Jensen Control Copy Share Image
“So often, environmentalists and others working to slow the destruction are capable of plainly describing the problems (Who wouldn’t be? The problems… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Death is, and must be, deeply emotional. To intentionally cause death is to engender a form of intimacy, one that we’re not… — Derrick Jensen Death Copy Share Image
“This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields.… — Derrick Jensen Education Copy Share Image
The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more… — Derrick Jensen Animal Copy Share Image
“Does anyone beside me experience a deep sorrow that someone called a "Hero for the Planet" and a "star of the sustainability… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Blasphemy is more complicated than the simple act of cursing God. It is an attempt to remove our cultural eyeglasses, or at… — Derrick Jensen Beyond the stars Copy Share Image
If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time? — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. — Derrick Jensen Culture Copy Share Image
“Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.” — Derrick Jensen Immature Copy Share Image
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the… — Derrick Jensen Forest Copy Share Image
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest… — Derrick Jensen Civilization Copy Share Image
“It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what… — Derrick Jensen Discovering yourself Copy Share Image
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