If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. For me, we find this beauty through relationships,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I see myself as a human being. You're right, I am an American, I do live in Utah, and I am deeply… — 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
