We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we project on to starlings that which we deplore in ourselves: our numbers, our aggression, our greed, and our cruelty. Like… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Community after community is rising up, ranchers, developers, environmentalists, and local commissioners, all saying this is not the best use of our… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
John Cobb is saying that perhaps we are beginning to see that now as our greed goes completely out of control and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
