Derrick Jensen Thinking Quotations

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet,

We must learn how to think like the planet.

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.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

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.

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.