Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I… — 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
Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience. — 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 pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.… — 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
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 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
Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is… — 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
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
