Hunting Badger Quotes

“where sophistication required the deeper and more difficult knowledge of how one walked in beauty, content in a difficult world?”
― Tony Hillerman, Hunting Badger

“Out here, everybody looks at you,” he said. “You’re somebody different. Hey, here’s another human, and I don’t even know him yet. In the city, nobody wants to make eye contact. They have built themselves a little privacy bubble—hard to get any privacy in crowded places—and if you look at them, or speak on the street, then you’re an intruder.”
― Tony Hillerman, Hunting Badger

“with the sandstone cliffs of the Manuelito Plateau off to their right, the great emptiness of Black Creek Valley on the left, and clouds lit by the morning sun building over the Painted Cliffs ahead of them.”
― Tony Hillerman, Hunting Badger

“They get caught up in the Washington competition, where knowledge is power. That gets them obsessed with secrecy.”
― Tony Hillerman, Hunting Badger

“Know that it is hard for the people to trust outside their own family. Even harder when they are sick. They have pain. They are out of harmony. They see no beauty anywhere. All their connections are broken. That is who you are talking to. You tell them the Power that made us made all this above us and around us and we are part of the Power and if we do as we are taught we can bring ourselves back into hozho. Back into harmony. Then they will again know beauty all around them.”
― Tony Hillerman, Hunting Badger

“Chee picked up his hat. “It’s not,” he said. “Lot of good people in the Bureau. It’s just they let the FBI get way too big. And the politicians get the promotions, and so they’re the ones making the policies and calling the shots instead of the bright ones. And”
― Tony Hillerman, Hunting Badger

“just another of the thousands of jobs rural policemen get solving little social problems among people turned eccentric by an overdose of dramatic skyscapes, endless silence and loneliness.”
― Tony Hillerman, Hunting Badger