As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“To see the yellow fritillaries burst forth after the deep snows of winter and know that the bears are soon to follow… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect so much from myself.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The power of nature is life in association. Nothing stands alone.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe we need wilderness in order to be more complete human beings, to not be fearful of the animals that we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I will never be able to say what is in my heart, because words fail us, because it is in our nature… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against… — 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 think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — 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
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
