Derrick Jensen
Born
in The United States
December 19, 1960
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A Language Older Than Words
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2000
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Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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2006
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The Culture of Make Believe
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2002
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Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
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2005
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Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance
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2006
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As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
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2007
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What We Leave Behind
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2009
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Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros
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1995
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Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
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2011
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Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
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2003
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“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the point is not to keep at bay all those people, beings, objects and emotions that we so needlessly fear? What if the point instead is to let go of that control? What if the point of life, the primary reason for existence, is to lie naked with your lover in a shady grove of trees? What if the point is to taste each other's sweat and feel the delicate pressure of finger on chest, thigh on thigh, lip on cheek? What if the point is to stop, then, in your slow movements together, and listen to the birdsong, to watch the dragonflies hover, to look at your lover's face, then up at the undersides of leaves moving together in the breeze? What if the point is to invite these others into your movement, to bring trees, wind, grass, dragonflies into your family and in so doing abandon any attempt to control them? What if the point all along has been to get along, to relate, to experience things on their own terms? What if the point is to feel joy when joyous, love when loving, anger when angry, thoughtful when full of thought? What if the point from the beginning has been to simply be?”
― A Language Older Than Words
― A Language Older Than Words
“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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