Derrick Jensen Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous Derrick Jensen quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 68 year old American author born on Apr 27, 1956.
“People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.”
“Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.”
“Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.”
“The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.”
“Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.”
“Civilization can never be sustainable.”
“I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.”
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