A man hears what he wants to ...

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

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