“Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?”
Derrick Jensen is an American author, environmental activist, and speaker. His work primarily focuses on environmental justice, social justice, and the impact of humans on nature. Jensen is known for his radical writing style and critical analysis of environmental destruction. more
“Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.”
“Trust is fine, but control is better.”
“Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.”
“To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.”
“Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.”
“Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.”
“There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.”