"Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels." — Derrick Jensen

"Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels."

— Derrick Jensen

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68 Quotes by Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on…
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a…
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground,…
A language Older Than Words
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of…
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have…
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no…
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd…
Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it…
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole…
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't…

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More Desert Quotes

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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert… — Orlando Bloom
Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits… — Buzz Aldrin
My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a… — Nicolas Cage
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within… — Albert Camus
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets… — Noam Chomsky
...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the… — Laozi
The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either… — Unknown Author
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this… — Edmond Jabes
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help… — Alan Valentine
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the… — Edward Abbey

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