--- title: "12 Utah Quotes By Terry Tempest Williams" description: "12 Utah quotes by Terry Tempest Williams. Plus more from Terry Tempest Williams and more Utah sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/terry-tempest-williams-835_break_i-think-my-heart-breaks-daily-living-in_1056000.png" --- > [I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-think-my-heart-breaks-daily-living-in-salt-lake-city-utah-but-i/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/terry-tempest-williams-835_break_i-think-my-heart-breaks-daily-living-in_1056000.png) > [In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/in-utah-alone-ten-million-acres-are-open-for-business-their-policy-is/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e2/terry-tempest-williams-835_acres_in-utah-alone-ten-million-acres-are-open_1985163.png) > [Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/having-lived-in-utah-all-of-my-life-i-can-tell-that-in-many-ways-i/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/terry-tempest-williams-835_blessing_having-lived-in-utah-all-of-my-life-i-ca_212203.png) > [...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/if-we-allow-ourselves-contemplative-time-in-nature-whether-it-s/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c0/terry-tempest-williams-835_asks_if-we-allow-ourselves-contemplative-time_2997037.jpg) > [I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-live-just-outside-of-salt-lake-city-in-a-place-called-emigration/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d73/terry-tempest-williams-835_canyons_i-live-just-outside-of-salt-lake-city-in_1930649.png) > [I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-can-only-tell-where-i-feel-most-at-home-which-is-in-the-erosional/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/terry-tempest-williams-835_castles_i-can-only-tell-where-i-feel-most-at-hom_1044337.png) > [As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/as-children-we-had-access-to-all-the-open-space-imaginable-we-would/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12a/terry-tempest-williams-835_access_as-children-we-had-access-to-all-the-ope_295200.png) > [My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/my-activism-is-a-result-of-my-love-so-whether-it-s-trying-to-preserve/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/terry-tempest-williams-835_acceptable_my-activism-is-a-result-of-my-love-so-wh_2088412.jpg) > [I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-know-the-struggle-from-the-inside-out-and-i-would-never-be-so-bold/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/320/terry-tempest-williams-835_american-west_i-know-the-struggle-from-the-inside-out_677063.jpg) > [When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/when-i-m-standing-in-the-middle-of-the-salt-flats-where-you-swear/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7af/terry-tempest-williams-835_beautiful_when-i-m-standing-in-the-middle-of-the-s_2889894.png) > [I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-think-that-what-i-was-talking-about-was-that-as-a-woman-growing-up/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/terry-tempest-williams-835_acceptable_i-think-that-what-i-was-talking-about-wa_529742.jpg) > [“Perhaps I am here because of last night’s dream, when I stood on the frozen lake before a kayak made of sealskin.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/perhaps-i-am-here-because-of-last-night-s-dream-when-i-stood-on-the/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/terry-tempest-williams-835_dreams_perhaps-i-am-here-because-of-last-night_484044.png) ## Other authors on Utah - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alan-parker-10364.jpg) Derrick Favors 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/utah/derrick-favors/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-robert-redford-80159.jpg) Robert Redford 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/utah/robert-redford/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edward-abbey-31690.jpg) Edward Abbey 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/utah/edward-abbey/) ## More by Terry Tempest Williams > [I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-admire-how-she-protects-her-energy-and-understands-her-limitations/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/buddha-says-there-are-two-kinds-of-suffering-the-kind-that-leads-to/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-wonder-how-among-the-fremont-mothers-and-daughters-shared-their/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-believe-the-personal-is-the-collective-one-of-the-ironies-of/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-write-to-discover-i-write-to-uncover-i-write-to-meet-my-ghosts-i/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-write-to-make-peace-with-the-things-i-cannot-control-i-write-to/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/hope-is-not-attached-to-outcomes-but-is-a-state-of-mind/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-have-spoken-about-what-we-can-do-as-citizens-what-we-can-do-as-a/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/the-moment-eve-bit-into-the-apple-her-eyes-opened-and-she-became-free/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-accept-the-organic-trinity-of-mineral-vegetable-and-animal-with-as/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/good-writing-must-stay-open-to-the-questions-and-not-fall-prey-to-the/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-believe-we-must-do-things-in-our-lives-for-the-right-reasons/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/a-mother-and-daughter-are-an-edge-edges-are-ecotones-transitional/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/to-be-read-to-be-heard-to-be-seen-i-want-to-be-read-i-want-to-be/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/the-eyes-of-the-future-are-looking-back-at-us-and-they-are-praying/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/utah/terry-tempest-williams/#itemlist", "name": "12 Utah Quotes By Terry Tempest Williams", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. 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