The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is… — William Kittredge Copy Share
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved… — William Kittredge Copy Share
“Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You… — William Kittredge Copy Share
The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific… — William Kittredge Copy Share
I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much. — William Kittredge Copy Share
In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion… — William Kittredge Copy Share
“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand… — William Kittredge Copy Share
What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight… — William Kittredge Copy Share
I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't want to… — William Kittredge Copy Share
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit… — William Kittredge Copy Share
A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink. — William Kittredge Copy Share
Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. — William Kittredge Copy Share
We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways… — William Kittredge Copy Share
Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives… — William Kittredge Copy Share
