Seattle writers Quotes

“I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.”

“Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!”

“We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.”

“What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.”

“Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.”

“The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.”

“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.”

“The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us. Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky. Twinkling joyous sunlight; airy, giggle cloud wisps; blinding columns of sun. Orbs of gold, pink. flesh, utterly cheesy in their luminosity. Gigantic puffly clouds, welcoming, forgiving, repeating infinitely across the horizon as if between mirrors; and slices of rain, pounding wet misery in the distance now, but soon on us, and in another part of the sky, a black stain, rainless.”

“The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.All things are connected like the blood that unites one family.Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.The earth is sacred and men and animals are but one part of it.Treat the earth with respect so that it lasts for centuries to come and is a place of wonder and beauty for our children.”