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Top 25 Paul Kingsnorth Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “Yes there were giants in the Earth it was real all of it. All of the stories they told you when you were a child they were all true. Imagine that. Imagine if adulthood is the fairy tale and childhood is the reality. Imagine giants’ graves all over the land and the motorways roaring past them and it is the motorways which are the romantic lies.”

2. “Yes there were giants in the Earth it was real all of it. All of the stories they told you when you were a child they were all true. Imagine that. Imagine if adulthood is the fairy tale and childhood is the reality. Imagine giants’ graves all over the land and the motorways roaring past them and it is the motorways which are the romantic lies.”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.”

3. “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

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.”

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

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “A case could be made, in fact, that the English were the first victims of the British empire: without their conquest, that empire could not have been built.”

5. “A case could be made, in fact, that the English were the first victims of the British empire: without their conquest, that empire could not have been built.”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “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 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.”

8. “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 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 Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don’t really have a better idea.”

9. “Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don’t really have a better idea.”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever.”

10. “Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever.”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.”

11. “In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.”

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “It’s always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.”

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

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “We are the first generations to grow up surrounded by evidence that our attempt to separate ourselves from ‘nature’ has been a grim failure, proof not of our genius but our hubris.”

13. “We are the first generations to grow up surrounded by evidence that our attempt to separate ourselves from ‘nature’ has been a grim failure, proof not of our genius but our hubris.”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “I wonder if every animal is a spirit... What if they are all spirits sent to you and how you treat them is what you are.”

14. “I wonder if every animal is a spirit... What if they are all spirits sent to you and how you treat them is what you are.”

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “The coming decades are likely to challenge much of what we think we know about what progress is, and about who we are in relation to the rest of nature. Can you think, or act, like the librarian of a monastery through the Dark Ages, guarding the old books as empires rise and fall outside?”

15. “The coming decades are likely to challenge much of what we think we know about what progress is, and about who we are in relation to the rest of nature. Can you think, or act, like the librarian of a monastery through the Dark Ages, guarding the old books as empires rise and fall outside?”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.”

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

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “I can’t speak the language of science without a corresponding poetry.”

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

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.”

20. “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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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “Time is always pressing. Nothing presses harder, or is so relentless, so unforgiving.”

21. “Time is always pressing. Nothing presses harder, or is so relentless, so unforgiving.”

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “Twenty-First Century Syndrome: knowing a place so well that you’re bored by the time you first visit.”

22. “Twenty-First Century Syndrome: knowing a place so well that you’re bored by the time you first visit.”

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “I feel that words are savage gods and that in the end, however well you serve them, they will eat you alive.”

23. “I feel that words are savage gods and that in the end, however well you serve them, they will eat you alive.”

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “Now a familiar human story is being played out. It is a story of a people who believed, for a long time, that their actions did not have consequence. It is the story of how that people will cope with the crumbling of their own myth. It is our story.”

24. “Now a familiar human story is being played out. It is a story of a people who believed, for a long time, that their actions did not have consequence. It is the story of how that people will cope with the crumbling of their own myth. It is our story.”

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “What was it for? What was the point? We look at the changing climate and the fallen trees and the plastic in the oceans and the anomie of our phone-drugged children and something tells us we are disconnected but we don’t know what to do with this feeling.”

25. “What was it for? What was the point? We look at the changing climate and the fallen trees and the plastic in the oceans and the anomie of our phone-drugged children and something tells us we are disconnected but we don’t know what to do with this feeling.”

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Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “These days my desire, overpowering sometimes, is for some land. An acre or two, some bean rows. A pasture, broadleaved trees, a view of a river. A small house, my kids running about. Solidity, hard ground beneath me, something there to stop me sinking. Clean air, food, meat water. Family, earth, mud, all the small wonders and irritations of life rising up to meet me as i come home. Having a home.”

26. “These days my desire, overpowering sometimes, is for some land. An acre or two, some bean rows. A pasture, broadleaved trees, a view of a river. A small house, my kids running about. Solidity, hard ground beneath me, something there to stop me sinking. Clean air, food, meat water. Family, earth, mud, all the small wonders and irritations of life rising up to meet me as i come home. Having a home.”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “The position I had painfully staked out in the world began to fragment. I began to fragment. I am still fragmenting, I think. Sometimes it scares me, sometimes it excites me. You have to come apart to be put back together in a different shape. You have to be reformed, or you rust up, and all your parts stop moving.”

27. “The position I had painfully staked out in the world began to fragment. I began to fragment. I am still fragmenting, I think. Sometimes it scares me, sometimes it excites me. You have to come apart to be put back together in a different shape. You have to be reformed, or you rust up, and all your parts stop moving.”

— Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth Quote: “It’s the blazing – the burning. It’s the intensity of being: of love, of sorrow, joy, grief, brokenness, loss. It’s the aching of all that is short and will soon be washed away. You have your one, brief, tiny, life. You have your pen. Can you convey the heat of it?”

28. “It’s the blazing – the burning. It’s the intensity of being: of love, of sorrow, joy, grief, brokenness, loss. It’s the aching of all that is short and will soon be washed away. You have your one, brief, tiny, life. You have your pen. Can you convey the heat of it?”

— Paul Kingsnorth

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