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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

Topics: Ability About Bringing Civilization Depriving Destroy Down Mean People People Say Planet Poor Powerful Really Rich Say Steal Talk You

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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.

~Derrick Jensen

Topics: Almost Become Dependent Difficult Exploiting Imagine Impossible Live Living Outside Part Physically Problem System Us Very

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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

~Derrick Jensen

Topics: Experience See Shape Shapes Stories Way Which World

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If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

~Derrick Jensen

Topics: Exploit Exploited Going Likely More Presented Resources Than Then World You

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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

Topics: Being Entitled Going Incapable Other Relation Resource See Seeing Should Take Then Whom Willing You Yourself

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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

Topics: Afraid Enough Four Generations Girl Grew Her Home House Human In Other Words Lightning Nebraska Only Other Plains She Sod Still Storms Them Tiny Trample Up Were Wild Words Would

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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.

~Derrick Jensen

Topics: Attention Begin Calendar Day Each Each Year Fall First Frogs Keeping Last Pay Pay Attention See Short Singing Start Want Who Year You I Want You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 19th, 1960

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