I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. — 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 can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of… — 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
I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the… — 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
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
