The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it… — Derrick Jensen 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 Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and at the same time… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet, — 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 Copy Share Image
My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect… — Derrick Jensen 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 Copy Share Image
“This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen 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. I learned… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.” — Derrick Jensen 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 of those… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world. — Derrick Jensen 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 and books… — 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 mothers at… — Derrick Jensen 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 human generations… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at… — Derrick Jensen 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 are neither… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
