All Derrick Jensen Quotes
- 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 and books and… Abstractions
- a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves All
- Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself,… Abrogation
- We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. Any
- The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. Degradation
- Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange… Answer
- A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. Delusion
- Love does not imply pacifism. Doe
- Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. All
- When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work. Agency
- Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop… Action
- A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize… Assistance
- Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. Central
- The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. Experience
- My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago… Afraid
- I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day… Attention
- Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to… Acknowledgment
- Higher education is everybody's rite Education