I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwis… - 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 otherwis…
- Derrick Jensen
We must learn how to think like the planet. - Derrick Jensen
We must learn how to think like the planet.
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? - Derrick Jensen
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. - Derrick Jensen
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.
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 a… - 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 a…
Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We wil… - Derrick Jensen
Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We wil…
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to b… - Derrick Jensen
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to b…
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It… - Derrick Jensen
There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It…
All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on … - Derrick Jensen
All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on …
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