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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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There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.
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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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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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Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.
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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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Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.
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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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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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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
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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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If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.
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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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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 the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.
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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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All writers are propagandists.
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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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By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.
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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 will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.
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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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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
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