Terry Tempest Williams

“Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

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

“I was not rebelling by smoking dope or drinking, I was testing ideas. I was experimenting with voice, what I could say…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I can only say that I believe the Mormon Church is changing because the people inside the church are changing, particularly, the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

“Your voice is the wildest thing you own,” Brooke says to me. “And you’re giving it away. You can’t see it. Your…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Flocks of magpies have descended on our yard. I cannot sleep for all their raucous behavior. Perched on weathered fences, their green-black…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“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

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at…

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I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

“Where do I belong? You can’t belong everywhere. Or perhaps we can if we pay attention to the paths of our ancestors.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“It just may be that the most radical act we can commit is to stay home. What does that mean to finally…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Perhaps I am here because of last night’s dream, when I stood on the frozen lake before a kayak made of sealskin.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

“The sin I have committed is the sin of adoption. I have adopted a different set of beliefs from the beliefs I…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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