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
Derrick Jensen quotes about
dog desert forests
Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.
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.
propagandist
All writers are propagandists.
beautiful character alive
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.
environmental kind killing
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.
people enough ends
There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.
Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.
men existence ifs
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.