It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I wonder, What is it to be human? Especially now that we are so urban. How do we remember our connection with… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I remember a phone call from a friend of mine who lives along the MacKenzie River. She said, "This is the first… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be 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
