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Derrick Jensen
American Author
Born: Dec 19, 1960
Become Living Matter Me World You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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. Derrick Jensen
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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. Derrick Jensen
Natural World Listening Books Ways Indigenous Civilized Emphasized Between Open-Minded Most Metaphor Difference Being Natural World Even Fundamental Fundamental Difference
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. Derrick Jensen
Me Culture People Matter Become Radical Consists Recognize Bad More Push Mainly Audience How Left Want Them Really Who Right
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. Derrick Jensen
Become Living Other Our Way Ourselves Tell Must Would Lies Maintain Because Without Impossibilities Deplorable Them Us Many Each Acts Necessary
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. Derrick Jensen
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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. Derrick Jensen
You People Rich Down Say Destroy Ability People Say About Steal Civilization Powerful Talk Mean Poor Depriving Planet Really Bringing
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. Derrick Jensen
Experience World Way See Shape Shapes Stories Which
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world. Derrick Jensen
You World Resources More Likely Than Going Exploit Then Exploited Presented
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. Derrick Jensen
You Yourself Entitled Other Relation Resource Willing See Seeing Take Going Being Then Incapable Should Whom

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