Verbs Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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."…

— 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…

— 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…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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,…

— 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…

— Terry Tempest Williams