Rewild or Die Quotes

“Civilization uses the perception of the world as a dead thing to justify its destruction. Animism sees the world as alive and treats it accordingly.”
― Urban Scout, Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization

“It all comes down to observation and empathy (the sixth sense we must dull to live in civilization).”
― Urban Scout, Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization

“When I turn resistance on its head and see it as civilization resisting the power of nature, I feel more empowered to resist civilization's domestication. The more I rewild, the less I see resistance as resistance but just living and caretaking the land.”
― Urban Scout, Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization

“Civilization does so much work to keep the world domesticated because domestication works as a form of resistance against the natural flow of the world, which always wants to rewild.”
― Urban Scout, Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization

“English works to domesticate the world as much as tilling means to domesticate it. Every element of our culture urges for domestication, for slavery.”
― Urban Scout, Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization

“Rewilders recognize that as long as empire exists, it will force people into domestication and prevent rewilding from taking place.”
― Urban Scout, Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization

“You can take the human out of civilization, but you can't take the civilization out of the human.”
― Urban Scout, Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization

“Rights' only become an issue when someone fucks you over and you can do little about it.”
― Urban Scout, Rewild or Die: Revolution and Renaissance at the End of Civilization