Derrick Jensen Quotes

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• There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain…
• If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only…
• I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.
• A language Older Than Words
• A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.
• By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence…
• When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too…
• I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we…
• Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us as…
• If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready…
• From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
• 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.
• Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
• I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet,
• But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the…
• All writers are propagandists.
• I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I…
• All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be…
• As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school.…
• Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though…

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