Way Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

16 Way quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams writes with a fierce connection to land and spirit. These sixteen quotes trace her belief that the way forward is rooted in respect for nature and personal responsibility.

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memory is the only way home.

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Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

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If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go… This is the…

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Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with…

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Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet…

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I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose…

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What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we…

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I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I…

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I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.…

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If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is…

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We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And…

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Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely,…

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I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way…

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And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the…

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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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Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the…

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

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Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…

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I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…

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“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like…

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“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…

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

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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 we have…

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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to…

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I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

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Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…

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“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something…

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