There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the… — 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
