Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensenis an American author and radical environmentalistliving in Crescent City, California. According to Democracy Now!, Jensen "has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 December 1960
CountryUnited States of America
reading sleep thinking
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.
thinking important resistance
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.
thinking culture killing
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet,
believe thinking slavery
To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.
thinking differences views
Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.
thinking planets
We must learn how to think like the planet.
cannot continue expand exploiting finish means resources run stop truth until wealth
What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have... .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.
writing veins pages
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
sex confused believe
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.
home talking important
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.
simple evil black
Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us as obvious and arrogant[...]. Often it comes to us with the simple plea to be reasonable.
home waiting wish
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.
civilization
Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
environmental kind killing
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.