Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire… — 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
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
Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the… — 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?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the… — 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
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller… — 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
