Derrick Jensen Quotes

Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

I talk by playing, not by words.

Even silence speaks.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.