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
“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
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest… — Derrick Jensen Civilization Copy Share Image
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the… — Derrick Jensen Forest Copy Share Image
“Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.” — Derrick Jensen Immature Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is… — Derrick Jensen Education Copy Share Image
I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“It’s never possible to know for certain the “true” source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection)… — Derrick Jensen 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
“Last December I saw an advertisement outside an electronics store. There was a little boy, delirious with delight, surrounded by computers, stereos,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of… — Derrick Jensen Ability Copy Share Image
I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups,… — Derrick Jensen Attention Copy Share Image
“This is the key to understanding the difference between indigenous and civilized warfare: Even in warfare the indigenous maintain relationships with their… — Derrick Jensen Life Copy Share Image
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal… — Derrick Jensen Alienation Copy Share Image
“ISOLATION DOES STRANGE THINGS to a person’s mind. This is true for any social creature, human or otherwise. Monkeys taken from their… — Derrick Jensen Isolation Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Animal 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 Perception Copy Share Image
“A primary purpose of Judeo-Christianity has not been to move us toward a community where the teachings of someone like Jesus -… — Derrick Jensen Aspects of life Copy Share Image
“I recently had dinner with George. We did not eat fish. Instead we ate at a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant. I had lemon-grass… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are… — Derrick Jensen Lies Copy Share Image
We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive… — Derrick Jensen Activism Copy Share Image
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world. — Derrick Jensen 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 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
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
“I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic… — Derrick Jensen Authority Copy Share Image
In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even… — Derrick Jensen Being Copy Share Image
The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or… — Derrick Jensen Activist 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 Copy Share Image
“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce… — Derrick Jensen Food Copy Share Image
A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said 'I want to go blow up a factory.' I… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for… — Derrick Jensen Corporations Copy Share Image
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… — Derrick Jensen Body Copy Share Image
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