We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. — Derrick Jensen Environmental Copy Share Image
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. — Derrick Jensen Books Copy Share Image
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly. — Derrick Jensen Culture Copy Share Image
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is… — Derrick Jensen Existence Copy Share Image
I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so… — Derrick Jensen Alive Copy Share Image
It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies… — Derrick Jensen Body Copy Share Image
All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for… — Derrick Jensen Corporations Copy Share Image
A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said 'I want to go blow up a factory.' I… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce… — Derrick Jensen Food Copy Share Image
“Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual one ton of garbage production, your per… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or… — Derrick Jensen Activist Copy Share Image
In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even… — Derrick Jensen Being Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“ISOLATION DOES STRANGE THINGS to a person’s mind. This is true for any social creature, human or otherwise. Monkeys taken from their… — Derrick Jensen Isolation Copy Share Image
“This culture destroys landbases. That's what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar… — Derrick Jensen Anti-civ Copy Share Image
“I have heard people suggest that because humans are natural that everything humans do or create is natural. Chainsaws are natural. Nuclear… — Derrick Jensen Clean air Copy Share Image
“I recently had dinner with George. We did not eat fish. Instead we ate at a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant. I had lemon-grass… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“A primary purpose of Judeo-Christianity has not been to move us toward a community where the teachings of someone like Jesus -… — Derrick Jensen Aspects of life Copy Share Image
“Perception is of course intimately tied to preconception. I have, as is true for each of us, a pair of cultural eyeglasses… — Derrick Jensen Perception Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Animal Copy Share Image
I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is… — Derrick Jensen Anarchism Copy Share Image
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. — Derrick Jensen Cry Copy Share Image
“In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life.… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a… — Derrick Jensen Being Copy Share Image
When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I… — Derrick Jensen Education Copy Share Image
Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Civilization Copy Share Image
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen Bounds Copy Share Image
“It’s never possible to know for certain the “true” source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection)… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
