By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to… — Derrick Jensen Aggression 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 Copy Share Image
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Isolation leads to psychopathology. Isolated from the rest of nature, isolated from each other by walls of fear, isolated from our own… — Derrick Jensen Fear Copy Share Image
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -… — Derrick Jensen Behavior Copy Share Image
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary… — Derrick Jensen Choices Copy Share Image
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance,… — Derrick Jensen Action Copy Share Image
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be… — Derrick Jensen 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
“This culture destroys landbases. That's what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar… — Derrick Jensen Anti-civ Copy Share Image
“I said that I feel bad whenever I drive, because I’m adding to global warming. The Maori nodded agreement. So did Jeannette.… — Derrick Jensen Factory farming 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
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding… — Derrick Jensen Authority 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 Creation myths Copy Share Image
“So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and the… — Derrick Jensen Anti-civ 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
“This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those… — Derrick Jensen Book 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 Indigenous 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
“No anesthetic was necessary for the people who ordered the killings; they had the misleading language of technocratic bureaucracy to distance them… — Derrick Jensen Beauty Copy Share Image
“Blasphemy is more complicated than the simple act of cursing God. It is an attempt to remove our cultural eyeglasses, or at… — Derrick Jensen Beyond the stars Copy Share Image
“Does anyone beside me experience a deep sorrow that someone called a "Hero for the Planet" and a "star of the sustainability… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more… — Derrick Jensen Animal Copy Share Image
“This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields.… — Derrick Jensen Education 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
“So often, environmentalists and others working to slow the destruction are capable of plainly describing the problems (Who wouldn’t be? The problems… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, not the wild forest. One… — Derrick Jensen Control Copy Share Image
“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the… — Derrick Jensen Life 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
