Derrick Jensen

Civilization can never be sustainable.

— Derrick Jensen

A language Older Than Words

— Derrick Jensen

We must learn how to think like the planet.

— Derrick Jensen

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

— Derrick Jensen

Higher education is everybody's rite

— Derrick Jensen

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

— Derrick Jensen

Love does not imply pacifism.

— Derrick Jensen

All writers are propagandists.

— Derrick Jensen

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

— Derrick Jensen

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

— Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

— Derrick Jensen

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

— Derrick Jensen

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet,

— Derrick Jensen

There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

— Derrick Jensen

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

— Derrick Jensen

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

— Derrick Jensen

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

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those…

— Derrick Jensen

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply,…

— Derrick Jensen

“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

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

— Derrick Jensen

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest…

— Derrick Jensen

“Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.”

— Derrick Jensen

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the…

— Derrick Jensen

A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said 'I want to go blow up a factory.' I…

— Derrick Jensen

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for…

— 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…

— Derrick Jensen

By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to…

— Derrick Jensen

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even…

— Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or…

— Derrick Jensen

“Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual one ton of garbage production, your per…

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“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce…

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“A primary purpose of Judeo-Christianity has not been to move us toward a community where the teachings of someone like Jesus -…

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“I have heard people suggest that because humans are natural that everything humans do or create is natural. Chainsaws are natural. Nuclear…

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“I recently had dinner with George. We did not eat fish. Instead we ate at a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant. I had lemon-grass…

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“This culture destroys landbases. That's what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar…

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Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set…

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“Perception is of course intimately tied to preconception. I have, as is true for each of us, a pair of cultural eyeglasses…

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“ISOLATION DOES STRANGE THINGS to a person’s mind. This is true for any social creature, human or otherwise. Monkeys taken from their…

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When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from…

— Derrick Jensen