“Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together… — 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
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller… — 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
Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“I am leaving this tower and returning home. When I speak with family, and comments are always the same, 'Won't you be… — 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
