“What is happening to the younger generation as a whole is a fraudulent foreclosure; it is unfair and oddly unnatural, a reversal of the normal flow of things according to which the older generation bestows many forms of dwelling on the younger.”
The Great Undwelling: How the wealth of the few spells eviction for the rest -Jay Griffiths
“The time for waiting is long gone. It is time to stop this culture from destroying life on earth. So take my hand. Take the hands of all those who came before us. But keep your other hand free, to make a fist or to pick up a pen. The health of the oceans, the forests, the rivers, the salmon, the sturgeon, the migratory songbirds, are all more important than you or I individually, and they are more important than your or my accomplishments. Their health will be the measure of our success.”
Loaded words: writing as a combat discipline -Derrick Jensen
“As individuals are evicted from their houses due to debts, climate change threatens an eviction from the sheltering sky, an undwelling from the deepest possible sense of home. The wrong things are being sheltered and the wrong things are being evicted: the wrong things are living and the wrong things are dying.”
The Great Undwelling: how the wealth of the few spells eviction for the rest -Jay Griffiths (via yearofthepoem)
“To dwell well is to be who we truly are: to know a place that shelters the best of our humanity, a place from which to see the future with tranquility.”
The Great Undwelling: How the wealth of the few spells eviction for the rest -Jay Griffiths
“The health of the planet is the only standard that really matters because without a living planet nothing else is important, because nothing else exists. Compared to this, the number of books one has published doesn’t matter. How beautifully or poorly they are written doesn’t matter. Financially supporting oneself doesn’t matter. Life itself is more important than what we create.”
Loaded words: writing as a combat discipline -Derrick Jensen
“When the planet’s foremost climatologist, James Hansen, said that heavily tapping the tar sands would eventually mean “game over for the climate,” it didn’t slow down the folks at TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. one bit—they just paid out more money for more lobbyists so they could get their way”
Scary Monsters: Corporations can’t be trusted with the rights of people -Bill McKibben
“Make sure that your words and your art and your literature move people individually and collectively in the direction of justice and sustainability.”
Loaded words: writing as a combat discipline -Derrick Jensen
Loaded words: writing as a combat discipline -Derrick Jensen
“Far too many of us have forgotten, or never knew, that words can be used as weapons in service to our communities. Far too many of us have forgotten, or never knew, that words should be used as weapons in service of our communities. For far too long too many critics and teachers have told us that literature should be apolitical (as though this were possible), and that even nonfiction and journalism should be “neutral” or “objective” (as though this, too, were possible).”
Loaded words: writing as a combat discipline -Derrick Jensen
“Make sure that your words and your art and your literature move people individually and collectively in the direction of justice and sustainability. They said literature that supports capitalism is immoral. A literature that supports patriarchy is immoral. A literature that does not resist oppression is immoral. But you can help to create a literature of morality and resistance, as each new generation must create this literature, with the help of all those generations who came before, holding their hands for support, just as those who come after will need to hold yours.”
Loaded words: writing as a combat discipline -Derrick Jensen
“I would not be who I am and I would not write what I write without having learned from my elders who refused to believe that writers should or can be apolitical or neutral or objective… Follow the truth—follow the words and ideas—wherever they lead. Words matter, they said.”
Loaded words: writing as a combat discipline -Derrick Jensen
“The problem with corporations is not wickedness, it’s simplicity. They’re simple not people; they’re closer to single-celled flagellates twitching helplessly toward profit. If we’re going to coexist with them, we have to make sure that we can regulate their behavior. Right now that’s impossible; given both the rights of people and the political power that their profits entail, they’ve turned into some monstrous hybrid. The crucial job for our time—our geological era—is to somehow reign them in, before they do more damage on a planetary scale. They simple can’t handle themselves; that job will require actual people.”
Scary Monsters: Corporations can’t be trusted with the rights of people -Bill McKibben
Finallyyy starting the March/April issue of Orion magazine :) get ready for a quote blast in the next few days from my favorite articles!
“Terry: Yesterday, weren’t you saying that rich people don’t make great activists?
Tim: Yeah. In front of a very wealthy audience.
Terry: But people understood what you were saying. I mean, we’re all privileged , right? Especially as predominantly white Americans sitting in a film festival in Telluride, Colorado.
Tim: Yeah. I also think that’s why we’re bad activists. That’s why the climate movement is weaker in this country than in the rest of the world. Because we have more stuff. We have much higher levels of consumption, and that’s how people have been oppressed in this country, through comfort. We’ve been oppressed by consumerism. By believing that we have so much to lose.” What Love Looks Like- A conversation with Tim DeChristopher by Terry Tempest Williams, Orion Magazine Jan/Feb 2012 (via skinnyloverica)
Tim: Yeah. In front of a very wealthy audience.
Terry: But people understood what you were saying. I mean, we’re all privileged , right? Especially as predominantly white Americans sitting in a film festival in Telluride, Colorado.
Tim: Yeah. I also think that’s why we’re bad activists. That’s why the climate movement is weaker in this country than in the rest of the world. Because we have more stuff. We have much higher levels of consumption, and that’s how people have been oppressed in this country, through comfort. We’ve been oppressed by consumerism. By believing that we have so much to lose.” What Love Looks Like- A conversation with Tim DeChristopher by Terry Tempest Williams, Orion Magazine Jan/Feb 2012 (via skinnyloverica)
“Once I realized that there was no hope in any sort of normal future, there’s no hope for me to have anything my parents or grandparents would have considered a normal future-of a career and a retirement and all that stuff-I realized that I absolutely nothing to lose by fighting back. Because it was all going to be lost anyways.”
Tim DeChristopher What Love Looks Like: A conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, January/February 2012
“Turning the other cheek, I think, is one extremely radical thing. That, I think, is his most powerful message about civil disobedience. And the other, which might be even more radical, is letting go of material wealth. That’s so radical that Christians today still can’t talk about it. I mean, he said it’s easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven. And he told his followers to drop what they had, to let go of their jobs, to let go of their material possessions. Even let go of their families. If they wanted to follow him, they had to let go of everything they were holding onto, all the things that brought them security in life. They had to be insecure. That’s pretty radical.”
Tim DeChristopher What Love Looks Like: A conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, January/February 2012
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