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Nature » Nature Writing

Savage Gods by Paul Kingsnorth
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Savage Gods

by Paul Kingsnorth

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“Kingsnorth served a strenuous apprenticeship in environmental activism before he decided that the activist agenda assumed an optimistic view of what was possible… He decided that all that we can do is to recover and to re-tell the stories that have formed us as humans: stories that tell us how our shapes have been determined by the pressure on us from the non-human forces of the world.” Read more...

The Best of Nature Writing 2019

Charles Foster, Medical Scientist

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