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 I could …

- Paul Kingsnorth

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 …

- Paul Kingsnorth

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

- 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 not as important as that.

- 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

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

- Paul Kingsnorth

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

- Paul Kingsnorth

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

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. Some of B…

- Paul Kingsnorth