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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.
Derrick Jensen
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Derrick Jensen
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 19
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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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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.
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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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Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.
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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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You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.
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The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.
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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
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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 be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?
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Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.
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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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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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I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.
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To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.
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