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We must learn how to think like the planet.

Derrick Jensen

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Derrick Jensen
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 19
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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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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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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
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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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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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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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There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.
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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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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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Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
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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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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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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 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 cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
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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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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
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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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All writers are propagandists.
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