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> [From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/from-the-beginning-this-culture-civilization-has-been-a-culture-of/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

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> [“This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/this-book-is-about-fighting-back-the-dominant-culture-civilization-is/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

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## More by Derrick Jensen

> [The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/the-global-industrial-economy-is-the-engine-for-massive-environmental/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [“In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/in-sum-one-of-the-primary-things-i-learned-was-how-to-kill-time-i/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [“I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/i-had-broken-the-most-basic-commandment-of-our-culture-thou-shalt/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [“Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/someone-asked-me-once-at-a-talk-why-i-so-stress-the-positive-with-my/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/if-the-world-is-presented-as-resources-to-be-exploited-then-more-than/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/it-s-no-wonder-we-don-t-defend-the-land-where-we-live-we-don-t-live/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/isolation-does-strange-things-to-a-person-s-mind-this-is-true-for-any/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/my-great-grandmother-grew-up-in-a-sod-house-in-nebraska-when-she-was/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/where-will-you-drive-your-own-picket-stake-where-will-you-choose-to/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/so-often-environmentalists-and-others-working-to-slow-the-destruction/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/forests-precede-us-and-deserts-dog-our-heels/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/the-condition-of-alienation-of-being-asleep-of-being-unconscious-of/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/so-many-indigenous-people-have-said-to-me-that-the-fundamental/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/when-dams-were-erected-on-the-columbia-salmon-battered-themselves/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

> [People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/people-say-what-do-you-mean-when-you-talk-about-bringing-down/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

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