relationships between humans

"Obviously I’m interested in human relationships, but I think often we stop there. Most literary art is about relationships between humans, most often about urban relationships, about marriage or romances. And prose writers don’t often address our relationship to what we call wilderness: other animals, the whole non-human world. It’s easier to write about the breakdown of a marriage, or a love affair, or office politics. I think there’s an urgency to writing about the rest of the living world, the rest of the non-human world, because the only way we’re going to stop ourselves from destroying everything in that sphere is for us to recognize our connections, our interdependence to that world..."

- John Burnside, 10: Meadow, 2001 Edinburgh Literary Festival