There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The power of nature is life in association. Nothing stands alone.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Life is not so predictable. I am forced to listen more carefully. In the right and left worlds, the stories told are… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I have refused to believe that Mother will die. And by denying her cancer, even her death, I deny her life. Denial… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I… — 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
“Is it possible to make a living by simply watching light? Monet did. Vermeer did. I believe Vincent did too. They painted… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“When I was a young woman with four children, I was always living ahead of myself,” she said. “Everything I was doing… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be a celebration of slowness. Walking through the sage from our front door, I am gradually drawn… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. 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
