Ifs Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

16 Ifs quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams invites you to contemplate the what‑ifs that shape our relationship with nature and self. Sixteen verses reveal her tender, yet fierce, perspective on possibility.

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If you waste water, you die.

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If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go… This is the…

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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 feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose…

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We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we…

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I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to…

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If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is…

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...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart…

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If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that…

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I can only say that I believe the Mormon Church is changing because the people inside the church are changing, particularly, the…

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When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come…

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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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I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected…

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I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern,…

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If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility…

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I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash…

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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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