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.
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.
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.
civilization
Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
thinking culture killing
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet,
environmental kind killing
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.
propagandist
All writers are propagandists.
school people hated
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?
creativity language
A language Older Than Words
lying tree forests
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.