A Language Older than Words (2000) is Derrick Jensen‘s first significant work — for which Raiazome, wry readers, and the swirling world’s host of healing life incur a sightly debt.

Thank you, Derrick Jensen; and thank you, rent, uprooted, and civilly polluted forests, forest streams, and last remains of coastal-teeming salmon.

Contents

1. Preface.
2. Chapters.
   1. Silencing.
   2. Coyotes, Kittens, and Conversations.
   3. Taking a Life.
   4. Cultural Eyeglasses.
   5. Cranes.
   6. The Safety of Metaphor.
   7. Claims to Virtue.
   8. Seeking a Third Way.
   9. Breaking Out.
   10. Economics.
   11. The Goal Is the Process.
   12. Heroes.
   13. Metamorphosis.
   14. Insatiability.
   15. Violence.
   16. The Parable of the Box.
   17. Violence Revisited.
   18. Coercion.
   19. Honeybees.
   20. A Turning Over.
   21. A Life of My Own.
   22. Interconnection.
   23. The Plants Respond.
   24. Death and Awakening.
   25. A Time of Sleeping.
   26. Out of Mourning, Play.
   27. Trauma and Recovery.
   28. Connection and Cooperation.
   29. Acknowledgments.
   30. Notes on Sources.
   31. Bibliography.

Copyright

© 2000 Derrick Jensen.

Sources

Raiazome sourced slices of the above excerpts from a physical hardcopy; and encourages, if these slices wet your glottal tongue- and throat-muscles with nectared heart, you to find (preferably through the fine-heavy borrow-ways of your local library) a physical hardcopy, yourself.