Derrick Jensen Quotes

I am in this same river. I can't much help it. I admit it: I'm racist. The other night I saw a group...

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all ma...

I am not a Buddhist. Yet there is a Buddhist story that I hold dear. A monk walks in a forest, and c...

Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and s...

Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual o...

So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and...

This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it ...

One of the problems with all of this is that not all narratives are equal. Imagine, to take a silly ...

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human ...

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into...

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way a...

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us fro...

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industriali...

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumptio...

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I sh...

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my lif...

It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or anothe...

There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. O...

Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstint...

This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only...

The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, ...

A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h...

A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.Three or four n...

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Vi...

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.