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A real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves
— Derrick Jensen
Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.
— Derrick Jensen
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.
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We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
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...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.
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We must learn how to think like the planet.
— Derrick Jensen
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.
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Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.
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I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.
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Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
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I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.
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Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.
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A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
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When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
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The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.
— Derrick Jensen
If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?
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The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
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A system of domination will always be undernourished.
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If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
— Derrick Jensen
I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies.
— Derrick Jensen
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?
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To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.
— Derrick Jensen
A language Older Than Words
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In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.
— Derrick Jensen
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.
— Derrick Jensen
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White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.
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All writers are propagandists.
— Derrick Jensen
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
— Derrick Jensen
As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?
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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
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A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.
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In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.
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Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right
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There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.
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Love does not imply pacifism.
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Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
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I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.
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Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
— Derrick Jensen
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
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