Paul Kingsnorth

We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're…

— Paul Kingsnorth

“upon a hyll stands a treow but this treow it has no stics no leafs. its stocc is gold on it is…

— Paul Kingsnorth

We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding…

— Paul Kingsnorth

What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in…

— Paul Kingsnorth

The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows…

— Paul Kingsnorth

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of…

— Paul Kingsnorth

Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into.…

— Paul Kingsnorth

I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our…

— Paul Kingsnorth

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in…

— Paul Kingsnorth

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

“I wonder if every animal is a spirit... What if they are all spirits sent to you and how you treat them…

— Paul Kingsnorth

“We are the first generations to grow up surrounded by evidence that our attempt to separate ourselves from ‘nature’ has been a…

— Paul Kingsnorth

I’m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning…

— Paul Kingsnorth

“Increasingly, though, for those penned into cities with no view of the stars and no taste of clean air and nothing but…

— Paul Kingsnorth

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

— Paul Kingsnorth

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

— Paul Kingsnorth

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth