The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards… — 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 and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise)… — 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
