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
“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
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
“[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
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
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
...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
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 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
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 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 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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