Paul Kingsnorth Quotes

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

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Pasado, Pensamiento, Gente

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• 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 help protect one of those from destruction, maybe that would be enough. Maybe it would be more than most people do.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Carácter, Ideas, Personas

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• Disfrutamos diciéndonos a nosotros mismos que pronto seremos dioses, amos del planeta, manipulando los genes de las criaturas vivas y reconstruyendo el mundo a nivel nanométrico mientras nos recostamos en nuestras hamacas, atendidos por nuestros sirvientes robóticos. No me creo ni una palabra, y no estoy seguro de que muchos de nosotros lo hagamos.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Lying, Believe, Hammocks

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• 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

  Fate, Thinking, Important

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

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Views, Despair, Clear View

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• 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 back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Pain, Eye, Dark

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

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Done, World, Today

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• Ciertamente, nuestra posición cultural de repliegue parece ser que nuestras tecnologías nos sacarán de todo en lo que nos han metido. A mí me parece un pensamiento mágico, pero en realidad no tenemos una idea mejor.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Thinking, Technology, Ideas

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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.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Men, Thinking, Abuse

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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.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Stories, Landscape, Action

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

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  Thinking, Order, Stories

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• The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Wind Turbines, Feet, Mountain

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

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Retrospect, Intention, Determine

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• 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.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Strong, Thinking, Church

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• 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 Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Past, Years, Land

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