Iām 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 KingsnorthWe 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 nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.
Paul KingsnorthWe 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"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.
Paul Kingsnorth