I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings. — 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
Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes… — 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 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
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 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
