Terry Tempest Williams

“Good work is a stay against despair.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

Home is where we have a history.

— Terry Tempest Williams

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Lanscape shapes culture.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I love the interrelatedness of things.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Grief dares us to love once more.

— Terry Tempest Williams

If you waste water, you die.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The mind creates those things that exist.

— Terry Tempest Williams

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

— Terry Tempest Williams

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The human heart is the first home of democracy,

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I wonder what would happen if you gave up your need to be right?”

— Terry Tempest Williams

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

— Terry Tempest Williams

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“What else are we to do with our obsessions? Do they feed us? Or are we simply scavenging our memories for one…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

— Terry Tempest Williams

Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken…

— Terry Tempest Williams

But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Thomas Berry calls the Ecozoic Era, a time when we recognize the imperative of caring for the planet as a means of…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I am leaving this tower and returning home. When I speak with family, and comments are always the same, 'Won't you be…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Today, everyone thinks we need to stay positive and hopeful and not be completely honest about what we are seeing, what we…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as…

— Terry Tempest Williams

What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“It was a dead swan. Its body lay contorted on the beach like an abandoned lover. I looked at the bird for…

— Terry Tempest Williams