Awards and Acclaim
- 2008: Named a “visionary” as one of Utne Reader magazine’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World.”
- 2008: Grand Prize winner, Eric Hoffer Book Award for Thought to Exist in the Wild, Derrick Jensen, Photographs by Karen Tweedy-Holmes.
- 2006: Named "Person of the Year" by Press Action for the publication of Endgame.
- 2003: The Culture of Make Believe was one of two finalists for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.
- 2000: Hackensack, NJ, Record declared A Language Older Than Words its best book of the year.
- 2000: Language was nominated for Quality Paperback Book Club's New Vision Award.
- 1998: Second Prize in the category of small budget non-profit advertisements, as determined by the Inland Northwest Ad Federation, for the first ad in the "National Forests: Your land, your choice" series.
- 1995: Critics' Choice for one of America's ten best nature books of 1995, for Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature, Culture, and Eros.
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