Love Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

17 Love quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams ties love to the land in 17 vivid reflections. Her words draw a line from the pulse of the natural world to the rhythm of human affection, offering a grounded, earthy perspective.

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Grief dares us to love once more.

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I love the interrelatedness of things.

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I write as a witness to what I have seen.

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Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

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“What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to…

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To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.

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When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

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“But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.”

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Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that…

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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…

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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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The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical…

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I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the…

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“What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to…

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“[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking…

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What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we…

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My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about…

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I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

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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 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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