The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.
Derrick JensenWe have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.
Derrick JensenSo many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.
Derrick JensenWriting is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
Derrick Jensen