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I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.

Derrick Jensen

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Derrick Jensen
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 19
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Environmentalist
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Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
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All writers are propagandists.
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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
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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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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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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 a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.
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We must learn how to think like the planet.
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
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As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?
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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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Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.
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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
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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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To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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