Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. — 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
Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic… — 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
I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Community after community is rising up, ranchers, developers, environmentalists, and local commissioners, all saying this is not the best use of our… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The power of nature is life in association. Nothing stands alone.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that. — 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
I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. — 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
Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in… — 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
We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the… — 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.” — 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 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
