“I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had… — Derrick Jensen Animal - rights Copy Share Image
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. — Derrick Jensen Books 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 Any Copy Share Image
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. — Derrick Jensen Economic Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Civilization Copy Share Image
“So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and the… — Derrick Jensen Anti-civ 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 Art of living Copy Share Image
“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce… — Derrick Jensen Food Copy Share Image
“It’s never possible to know for certain the “true” source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection)… — Derrick Jensen Damn good 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 Challenge-and-attitude Copy Share Image
a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves — Derrick Jensen Helping Copy Share Image
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance,… — Derrick Jensen Action Copy Share Image
If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a… — Derrick Jensen Being 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 Hope Copy Share Image
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. — Derrick Jensen Easy 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 Bounds Copy Share Image
“Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in understanding, where you see the world so differently… — Derrick Jensen Learning Copy Share Image
“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to… — Derrick Jensen Education Copy Share Image
“Isolation leads to psychopathology. Isolated from the rest of nature, isolated from each other by walls of fear, isolated from our own… — Derrick Jensen Fear Copy Share Image
“The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.” — Derrick Jensen Mentorship Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Animal Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. — Derrick Jensen Culture 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 Life Copy Share Image
