Failure Quote by Paul Kingsnorth

“We are the first generations to grow up surrounded by evidence that our attempt to separate ourselves from ‘nature’ has been a grim failure, proof not of our genius but our hubris.” quote by Paul Kingsnorth — Download Open 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, proof not of our genius but our hubris.””

Paul Kingsnorth

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“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…

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

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

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

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God's love never fail :)

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“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

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