Thinking Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.

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I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

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I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being.

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I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

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There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar…

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I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

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I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with…

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I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that…

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I know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization…

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I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as…

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My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together…

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I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel…

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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…

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I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it…

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I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and…

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I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where…

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I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I…

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Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it,…

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I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration…

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I wonder, What is it to be human? Especially now that we are so urban. How do we remember our connection with…

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I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody…

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The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of…

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I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that…

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I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake…

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I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .…

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I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern,…

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A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said,…

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When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white…

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I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness,…

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Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.

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The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line…

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We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we…

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Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It…

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We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it…

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We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so,…

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I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a…

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I look at Los Angeles and I ask myself, How can this ever be sustainable? And what are we contributing to that?…

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I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can…

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I think Barack Obama has been a terrible disappointment environmentally. It's very sobering to realize, as a westerner, that under the Obama…

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