“The people in my classes, including me, did not need to be controlled, managed, nor even taught. What we needed was to be encouraged, accepted & loved just for who we were. We needed not to be governed by a set of rules that would tell us what we needed to learn & what we needed to express, but to be given time in a supportive space to explore who we were & what we wanted, with the assistance of others who had our best interests at heart. I believe that is true not only for my students, but for all of us, humans & nonhumans alike. All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love & be loved, to be accepted, cherished & celebrated simply for being who we are." — Derrick Jensen
And another from the same dude:
"Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical." Who is he?
According to
Wikipedia, he's not just a dude that's fond of daggy sweaters. "
Derrick Jensen (born December 19, 1960) is an American author and environmental activist living in Crescent City, California."
Pretty clever dude.
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