128 Quotes by Derrick Jensen

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

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

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 the history of the planet.

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.

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

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

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.

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 world that is not being murdered.

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