"It's no wonder we don't defend the land……" — Derrick Jensen
"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 and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances."
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68 Quotes by Derrick Jensen
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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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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described…
— Carl Sagan
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He…
— Flannery O'Connor
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
— Wendell Berry
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There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
— Edmund Burke
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time…
— Walt Whitman
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
— Marianne Williamson
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or…
— Virginia Woolf
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For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.
— Paulo Coelho
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