The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is… — 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
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
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from… — 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
The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can… — 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
