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17 quotes by Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen (born December 19, 1960) is an American author and radical environmentalist (and prominent critic of mainstream environmentalism) living in Crescent City, California. According to Democracy Now!, Jensen "has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement." Jensen has published several books, including The Culture of Make Believe and Endgame, that question and critique civilization as an entire social system, exploring...
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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in... →

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Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

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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... →

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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... →

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People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the... →

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For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many... →

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Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

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Civilization can never be sustainable.

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I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

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If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

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I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a... →

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