"We have a need for enchantment that is……" — Derrick Jensen

"We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water."

— Derrick Jensen

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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…
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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