Derrick Jensen Quotes

United States, Author
December 19, 1960

Derrick Jensen (born December 19, 1960) is an American author and radical environmentalist (and prominent critic of mainstream environmentalism) living in Crescent City, California. According to Democracy Now!, Jensen "has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement."

Also known as Environmentalist

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

Derrick Jensen
I quit work two weeks later-having sold another eighty of my hours-and knew I could never again work a regular job.

Derrick Jensen
- Work
- Job

From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with-and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with-the perceived entitlement.

Derrick Jensen
- Power
- Perspective
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means-all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

Derrick Jensen
- World
- Women
- Children
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we will need to understand and change the social and economic conditions that cause them.

Derrick Jensen
- Stop
- Wish