People Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

14 People quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams’ 14 quotes on people capture her reverence for community and the natural world. Though brief, the collection offers a poignant, grounded perspective on how we relate to each other and the environment.

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There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

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I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to.…

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I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I…

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Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic…

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Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. For me, we find this beauty through relationships,…

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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 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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People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold,…

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When you look at the Pueblo communities along the Rio Grande, when you talk to the Navajo people, the Ute people, and…

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I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel…

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Community after community is rising up, ranchers, developers, environmentalists, and local commissioners, all saying this is not the best use of our…

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And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the…

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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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We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you…

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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 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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