I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line… — 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
We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness,… — 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
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
I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration… — 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… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's… — 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
I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And… — 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
I think Barack Obama has been a terrible disappointment environmentally. It's very sobering to realize, as a westerner, that under the Obama… — 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 think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that… — 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
There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .… — 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
![“When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I…” quote by Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91c/terry-tempest-williams-835_bodies-of-water_when-pico-iyer-talks-about-home-being-a_1766926.jpg)
