Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. — Derrick Jensen Experience Copy Share Image
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. — Derrick Jensen Delusion Copy Share Image
Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy. — Derrick Jensen Ability 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
In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. — Derrick Jensen Lies 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
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is… — Derrick Jensen Anarchism Copy Share Image
I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so… — Derrick Jensen Alive 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
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings,… — Derrick Jensen Being human Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Degradation Copy Share Image
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely… — Derrick Jensen Biology 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
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love… — Derrick Jensen Experience 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 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 Exploitation 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
“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
“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
“One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop. If only we rid ourselves of Chinese,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I wish that my childhood would have been different. I do not, however, regret what happened. This does not mean tht I… — Derrick Jensen Children Copy Share Image
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can… — Derrick Jensen Civilization Copy Share Image
“For instance, have you heard of Rupert Sheldrake’s work with dogs? He puts a time-recording camera on both the dog at home… — Derrick Jensen Living things Copy Share Image
A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.” — Derrick Jensen Commandment Copy Share Image
“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
“A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.” — Derrick Jensen Awareness Copy Share Image
We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water. — Derrick Jensen Enchantment 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 waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had… — Derrick Jensen 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 Copy Share Image
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
