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Top 10 William Kittredge Quotes (2025 Update)

William Kittredge Quote: “The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can’t buy it back.”

1. “The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can’t buy it back.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?”

2. “Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.”

3. “We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.”

4. “It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.”

5. “What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “We need to give some time to the arts of cherishing the things we adore, before they simply vanish. Maybe it will be like learning a skill: how to live in paradise.”

6. “We need to give some time to the arts of cherishing the things we adore, before they simply vanish. Maybe it will be like learning a skill: how to live in paradise.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.”

7. “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

William Kittredge Quote: “In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.”

8. “In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “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.”

9. “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

William Kittredge Quote: “In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion – ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.”

10. “In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion – ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, we’ll get it right.”

11. “Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, we’ll get it right.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.”

12. “It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.”

— William Kittredge

William Kittredge Quote: “We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.”

13. “We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.”

— William Kittredge

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