Derrick Jensen Quotes

Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.

Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Study nature, not books.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

You need to pay attention to the little things as well as the big things.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

If you aren't listening, you are missing out.

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

If you pay attention to everything and everyone, you can keep your finger on the pulse and know what's going on. Then you can pull back when you need to or go forward in a certain way.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Once people learn what global warming means, they start to pay attention.

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.