“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 still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do,… — 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
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,… — 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
