A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first… — 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 Copy Share Image
“As Lewis Mumford observed, our choices have been grossly limited: “On the terms imposed by technocratic society, there is no hope for… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to… — Derrick Jensen 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
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
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question… — 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
