We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures,… — Derrick Jensen Assault 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 Existence Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with all of this is that not all narratives are equal. Imagine, to take a silly example, that… — Derrick Jensen Anarchism Copy Share Image
If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned. — Derrick Jensen Community Copy Share Image
“There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and at the same time… — Derrick Jensen Beauty Copy Share Image
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding… — Derrick Jensen Authority Copy Share Image
“Does anyone really believe that a pattern of exploitation old as our civilization can be halted legislatively, judicially, or through any means… — Derrick Jensen First place Copy Share Image
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 Believe Copy Share Image
“This culture destroys landbases. That's what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar… — Derrick Jensen Anti-civ 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 Anti-civilization Copy Share Image
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary… — Derrick Jensen Choices Copy Share Image
“The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, not the wild forest. One… — Derrick Jensen Control Copy Share Image
“Let's be honest. The activities of our economic and social system are killing the planet. Even if we confine ourselves merely to… — Derrick Jensen Nature of man Copy Share Image
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. — Derrick Jensen Environmental Copy Share Image
“White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.” — Derrick Jensen Culture Copy Share Image
“If you’re comfortable with who you are, however, it becomes no problem to let others be their own selves around you: you… — Derrick Jensen Faith 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 Almost Copy Share Image
“There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. One of the great… — Derrick Jensen Education Copy Share Image
“Perception is of course intimately tied to preconception. I have, as is true for each of us, a pair of cultural eyeglasses… — Derrick Jensen Too far Copy Share Image
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. — Derrick Jensen Cry Copy Share Image
“This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields.… — Derrick Jensen Education Copy Share Image
