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
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect. — 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… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
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.… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
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
“We are the first generations to grow up surrounded by evidence that our attempt to separate ourselves from ‘nature’ has been a grim failure,… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
I’m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, though, for those penned into cities with no view of the stars and no taste of clean air and nothing but grass between… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
