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Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Derrick Jensen

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Derrick Jensen
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 19
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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.
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I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.
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We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
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Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
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To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization, taking down that power structure, does not mean the end of all social order. It should ultimately mean more justice, more local control, more democracy, and more human rights, not less.
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I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.
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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?
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We must learn how to think like the planet.
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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.
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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
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So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.
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If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?
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The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.
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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 the history of the planet.
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Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
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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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Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.
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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 is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.
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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
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