Quotes by Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution

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This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to — Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic of those — Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. One of the great fail — Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard part — Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I shouldn’t expect words — Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give — Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution