The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My heart breaks living in southern Utah on the edge of America's Redrock Wilderness, witnessing what the Bush Administration's policies regarding oil… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Thomas Berry calls the Ecozoic Era, a time when we recognize the imperative of caring for the planet as a means of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — 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
