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Quotes from A Language Older Than Words — Derrick Jensen

born 1960 United States

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

A Language Older Than Words (2000)

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.'

A Language Older Than Words (2000)

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