“We've been making love these past two days by talking and I want for our bodies to join the conversation.” — Derrick Jensen Communication Copy Share Image
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind… — Derrick Jensen Body Copy Share Image
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for… — Derrick Jensen Force Copy Share Image
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. — Derrick Jensen Civilization Copy Share Image
You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you… — Derrick Jensen Doe Copy Share Image
“I am in this same river. I can't much help it. I admit it: I'm racist. The other night I saw a… — Derrick Jensen Best friend Copy Share Image
“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 Discovering yourself Copy Share Image
“A primary purpose of school - and this is true for our culture's science and religion as well - is to lead… — Derrick Jensen Collective consciousness Copy Share Image
“We were not meant for this. We were meant to live and love and play and work and even hate more simply… — Derrick Jensen Live and love Copy Share Image
“The fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to… — Derrick Jensen Natural world Copy Share Image
To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. — Derrick Jensen Believe Copy Share Image
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet, — Derrick Jensen Culture Copy Share Image
“Death is, and must be, deeply emotional. To intentionally cause death is to engender a form of intimacy, one that we’re not… — Derrick Jensen Death Copy Share Image
“Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly. — Derrick Jensen Culture Copy Share Image
“I have heard people suggest that because humans are natural that everything humans do or create is natural. Chainsaws are natural. Nuclear… — Derrick Jensen Clean air Copy Share Image
“I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a… — Derrick Jensen Communication Copy Share Image
My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become… — Derrick Jensen Audience Copy Share Image
“The anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday looked at data from over a hundred cultures as to the prevalence of rape, and divided them… — Derrick Jensen Men and women Copy Share Image
Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless. — Derrick Jensen Agency Copy Share Image
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting… — Derrick Jensen Atrocities Copy Share Image
“I'm reasonably certain, salmon, swordfish, and hammerhead sharks do not find themselves paralyzed by spasms of self-blame for their plight - What… — Derrick Jensen Civilization Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake, our economic system can do no other than destroy everything it encounters. That’s what happens when you convert living… — Derrick Jensen Economic system Copy Share Image
