Kingsnorth Quotes

“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.”
― Paul Kingsnorth

“We have cut ourselves off from everything else that lives, and because we don't believe that it does live, we have ended up talking only to ourselves. We have ended what Thomas Berry called 'the great conversation' between humans and other forms of life. We are becoming human narcissists, entombed in our cities, staring into our screens, seeing our faces and our minds reflected back and believing this is all there is. And outside the forests fall, the ice melts, the corals die back and extinctions roll on; but we keep writing our love letters to ourselves, oblivious.”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays