24 Quotes by Paul Kingsnorth

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

I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.

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

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 at all. We have made ourselves caged animals, and all the gadgets in the world cannot compensate for what we have lost. Humans.

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

I can’t speak the language of science without a corresponding poetry.