9 Quotes by Per Espen Stoknes

Better storytelling can overcome our deepest barriers.

Optimism and pessimism are tools we can apply when considering the wild different futures lurking beyond the horizon. And they are best used in parallel, like the left and right eye. It's not an either-or, but a both-and.

Re-wilding is a story of nature's amazing capacity to rebound. It tells of the resilience of birch and pine, the dogged persistence of badger and fox, of dandelion and vine, the dark and voiceless worlds of algae and fungi.

Many of the interdependent mammals, birds, and corals may be vulnerable, living precariously close to the extinction cliff, but nature is also wild and robust, and swings back if given the smallest crack in the concrete. Witness the dandelions.

It's a team, really: the wilderness and us.

I don't need to believe that things will end well in order to act. The walking and the doing are their own reward.

It’s a team, really: the wilderness and us.

I don’t need to believe that things will end well in order to act. The walking and the doing are their own reward.

Re-wilding is a story of nature’s amazing capacity to rebound. It tells of the resilience of birch and pine, the dogged persistence of badger and fox, of dandelion and vine, the dark and voiceless worlds of algae and fungi.