Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a… — William Kittredge Business Copy Share Image
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself… — William Kittredge Animal Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to… — William Kittredge Change Copy Share Image
The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at… — William Kittredge Danger Copy Share Image
I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too… — William Kittredge Ability Copy Share Image
In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility… — William Kittredge Animal Copy Share Image
“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we… — William Kittredge Life Copy Share Image
What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always… — William Kittredge Beautiful Copy Share Image
I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't… — William Kittredge Deserve Copy Share Image
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Bed Copy Share Image
A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink. — William Kittredge Air Copy Share Image
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… — William Kittredge Helping Copy Share Image
We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our… — William Kittredge Believe Copy Share Image
Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of… — William Kittredge Another chance Copy Share Image
“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we… — William Kittredge Life Copy Share Image
We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves. — William Kittredge Mirrors Copy Share Image
I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live… — William Kittredge Believe Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Agriculture Copy Share Image
One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving. — William Kittredge America Copy Share Image
We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is… — William Kittredge Character Copy Share Image
The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in… — William Kittredge Complexes Copy Share Image
They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit. — William Kittredge Bullshit Copy Share Image
It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure… — William Kittredge Complexes Copy Share Image
“How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your… — William Kittredge Home Copy Share Image
