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Derrick Jensen quotes

American Author December 19, 1960

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Derrick Jensen quote: "We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as..."
We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water. Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen quote: "Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more..."
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. Derrick Jensen
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent. Derrick Jensen
The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are. Derrick Jensen
It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances. Derrick Jensen
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. Derrick Jensen
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. Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen quote: "We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but..."
We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. Derrick Jensen
I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die. Derrick Jensen
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens. Derrick Jensen
So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power. Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen quote: "Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another,..."
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. Derrick Jensen
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility. Derrick Jensen
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation. Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen quote: "a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be..."
a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves Derrick Jensen

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