Human beings Quotes by Derrick Jensen

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

— 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…

— Derrick Jensen

“I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.”

— 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…

— Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Derrick Jensen

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

— 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…

— Derrick Jensen