“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 only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time? — 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
“This is the key to understanding the difference between indigenous and civilized warfare: Even in warfare the indigenous maintain relationships with their… — 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
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“There have existed, and for the time being still exist, many cultures whose members refuse to cut the vocal cords of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the… — 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
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the… — 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 Copy Share Image
In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends. — Derrick Jensen 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 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
Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are… — 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
