Creativity Quote by Derrick Jensen Download Open image “A language Older Than Words” — Derrick Jensen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Inspirational Language Love Understanding
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life. — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to explore… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ¦ Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.” — 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 of those… — Derrick Jensen 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
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… — Derrick Jensen 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 mothers at… — 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 human generations… — 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 point at… — Derrick Jensen 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 are neither… — Derrick Jensen 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 man. Society… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
