Community Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

30 Community quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams writes about community as an ecosystem of people and places, where stewardship and belonging intertwine. In 30 excerpts she invites readers to see environmental care as a communal act.

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I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

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At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that.

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Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

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“The power of nature is life in association. Nothing stands alone.”

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I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

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“I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture.”

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Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded…

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I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with…

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I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In…

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Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in…

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Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

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Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This…

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I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come…

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I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it…

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I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I…

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I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the…

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I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that…

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Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social…

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We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same…

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Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic…

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I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am…

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Community after community is rising up, ranchers, developers, environmentalists, and local commissioners, all saying this is not the best use of our…

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For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the…

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I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .…

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Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the…

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

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When you look at the Pueblo communities along the Rio Grande, when you talk to the Navajo people, the Ute people, and…

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John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the…

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We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And…

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Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a…

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I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

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Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…

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I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…

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“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like…

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“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…

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Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

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I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have…

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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to…

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I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

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Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…

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

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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…

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