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
hope agency degrees
When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.
marriage real party
a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves
people enough ends
There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.
suicide children mean
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.
Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.
mass-destruction hatred historical
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?
civilization
Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
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.
thinking planets
We must learn how to think like the planet.
afraid four grew home house human lightning plains sod storms tiny trample wild
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.
depriving destroy mean people poor steal talk
People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.
presented
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
almost dependent difficult exploiting imagine outside physically system
Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.
central excuse gaelic literature wrote
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.