In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

John Burnside

Abandoning Beloved Grandiose Learning Live Masters Means Nature Need Old Only Our Ourselves Protect Recognise Scale Schemes Soil Till Time Will Within

Related Quotes

masters on their own soil.

— Viktor Yanukovych

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

— John Burnside

Everything about this show is on such a large grandiose scale. It's the largest thing that's ever come to Rochester.

— Sara Schultz

GrandioseLargeLargest

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.

— John Burnside

AgriculturalAreaBeing

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.

— John Burnside

BigConsistFeelings