“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Last night, I spoke at one of the Circle Meetings of the Baptist Church. Afterward, a Kenyan friend, Wangari Waigwa-Stone, and I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it.… — 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
“Now, in a shift of light, the shadows of birds are more pronounced on the gallery’s white wall. The shadow of each… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to make a living by simply watching light? Monet did. Vermeer did. I believe Vincent did too. They painted… — 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 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
