I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I could not separate the Bird Refuge from my family. Devastation respects no boundaries. The landscape of my childhood and the landscape… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Today, everyone thinks we need to stay positive and hopeful and not be completely honest about what we are seeing, what we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
