We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The power of nature is life in association. Nothing stands alone.” — 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 think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go… This is the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run,… — 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
“Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace.… — 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
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect so much from myself.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest… — 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
“To see the yellow fritillaries burst forth after the deep snows of winter and know that the bears are soon to follow… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe we need wilderness in order to be more complete human beings, to not be fearful of the animals that we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as… — 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
Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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 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
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![“[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.” quote by Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4e2/terry-tempest-williams-835_love_i-f-you-know-wilderness-in-the-way-that_1440842.png)
