Derrick Jensen
We suffer from misperceiving the world. We believe ourselves separated from each other and from all others by words and by thoughts. We believe - rationally, we think - that we are separated by rationality, and that to perceive the world "rationally" is to perceive the world as it is. But perceiving the world "as it is" is also to misperceive it entirely, to blind ourselves to an even greater body of truth.