Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Hindsight shows us our blind spots and biases; we can recognize ourselves as human beings caught in the cultural mores of a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that… — 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
Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature… — 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… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global… — 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
There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be a celebration of slowness. Walking through the sage from our front door, I am gradually drawn… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against… — 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
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
This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together—the very thing I avoid is the thing… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart… — 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
“When I was a young woman with four children, I was always living ahead of myself,” she said. “Everything I was doing… — 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
