Derrick Jensen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Derrick Jensen quotes and sayings page 2 (68 year old author). These are the last 7 out of 17 quotes we have for him.
“If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.”
“It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.”
“I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.”
“I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.”
“If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.”
“In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.”
“My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn't really matter to me if they are Left or Right.”
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