Derrick Jensen

Person · Open Library

Born

19 December 1960

Works

49

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1960-12-19

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13,217

Derrick Jensen B.S. M.F.A. (born December 19, 1960) is an American author and environmental activist living in Crescent City, California. He has published several books questioning contemporary society and its values, including A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, and Endgame. He holds a B.S. in Mineral Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. He has also taught creative writing at Pelican Bay

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,968x

2. General atomic and molecular electronic structure system

   · 1993 · cited 19,086x

3. STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets

   · 2018 · cited 15,411x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,393x

5. Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties.

   · 2000 · cited 15,204x

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Quotes

• “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.”
• “I would say that when hope dies, action begins.”
• “A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said 'I want to go blow up a factory.' I asked how old he was and he said 17. I said 'have you ever had sex?' He said 'no.' I said 'just remember if you get caught you aren't going to have sex for twenty years at least.' That's not saying that one person having sex is worth the salmon. I'm not saying it's a reason not to act, I'm saying don't be stupid.”
• “Jeanette [Armstrong, "a traditional Okanagan Indian"] said, 'Attitudes about the species communication are the primary difference between western and indigenous philosophies. Even the most progressive western philosophers still generally believe that listening to the land is a metaphor.' She paused, then continued emphatically, 'It's not a metaphor. It's how the world is.'”
• “I sat at the computer at work, debugging. I was bored. It was afternoon. I was twenty-two. It was June. Along the front range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, thunderheads move in almost every afternoon between May and early July. They materialize, darken the day, spit a few drops, open the sky with lightning, then disappear like so many dreams.”
• “I remember staring at the computer screen--light green letters on dark--then at the clock, and finally at my outstretched fingers held a foot in front of my face. And then it dawned on me: selling the hours of my life was no different from selling my fingers one by one. We've only so many hours, so many fingers; when they're gone, they're gone for good.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

derrickjensen.org

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