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If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.
Derrick Jensen
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Derrick Jensen
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 19
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Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.
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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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