The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority,… — 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 feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I wonder, What is it to be human? Especially now that we are so urban. How do we remember our connection with… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my… — 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
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself.… — 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
