In most novels, the ...

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

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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
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