Quotes by Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

Being Human

Culture

Produce

A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said ‘I want to go blow up a factory.’ I asked how old he was and he said 17. I said ‘have you ever had sex?’ He said ‘no.’ I said ‘just remember if you get caught you aren’t going to have sex for twenty years at least.’ That’s not saying that one person having sex is worth the salmon. I’m not saying it’s a reason not to act, I’m saying don’t be stupid.

Kids

Sex

Stupid

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?

Hated

People

School

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

Civilization

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 deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Deceit

Lying

Way

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

Desert

Dog

Forests

Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn’t exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?

Love

Mean

Trust

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

Agency

Longing

Mean

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.

Alive

Beautiful

Character

I no longer see Descartes’ statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture’s narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

Arbitrary

Culture

Disrespect

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Agency

Air

Alive

Animal

Arbitrary

Beautiful

Being Human

Believe

Cases

Character

Children

Civilization

Courses

Culture

Cutting

Deceit

Degradation

Degrees

Desert

Dimes

Disrespect

Dog

Dream

Economy

Eight

Enchantment

Ends

Enough

Environmental

Fighting

Forests

Giving

Hated

Hatred

Historical

Home

Hope

Important

Inspiring

Intelligent

Kids

Killing

Kind

Land

Law

Layers

Lifestyle Choices

Limited Time

Lines

Long

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Quotes by Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

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?

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

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 deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn’t exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

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.

I no longer see Descartes’ statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture’s narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

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