"From the beginning, this culture - civilization -……" — Derrick Jensen
"From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation."
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68 Quotes by Derrick Jensen
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There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on…
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If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a…
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I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground,…
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A language Older Than Words
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A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of…
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By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have…
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When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no…
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I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd…
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Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it…
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If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole…
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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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Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
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