Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a… — 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
I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it,… — 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
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 write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said,… — 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
There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I see myself as a human being. You're right, I am an American, I do live in Utah, and I am deeply… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. For me, we find this beauty through relationships,… — 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
I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can… — 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
I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the… — 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
Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Watching the spontaneous acts of kindness, compassion, and generosity, courage, and bravery in the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings was so… — 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
