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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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Derrick Jensen
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 19
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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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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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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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We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
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There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.
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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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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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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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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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Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
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Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.
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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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