“Increasingly, though, for those penned into cities with no view of the stars and no taste of clean air and nothing but grass between the cracks in the pavement to nourish their sense of the wild, this is no freedom… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
“upon a hyll stands a treow but this treow it has no stics no leafs. its stocc is gold on it is writhan lines of blud red it reacces to the heofon its roots is deop deop in the eorth. abuf the hyll all the heofon is hwit and below all the ground is deorc. the treow is scinan and… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share
We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today.… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
“I wonder if every animal is a spirit... What if they are all spirits sent to you and how you treat them is what… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
