Terry Tempest Williams

People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe…

— Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.

— Terry Tempest Williams

To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten…

— Terry Tempest Williams

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Perhaps I am here because of last night’s dream, when I stood on the frozen lake before a kayak made of sealskin.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

— Terry Tempest Williams

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Grief dares us to love once more.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I want my life to be a celebration of slowness. Walking through the sage from our front door, I am gradually drawn…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Flocks of magpies have descended on our yard. I cannot sleep for all their raucous behavior. Perched on weathered fences, their green-black…

— Terry Tempest Williams

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I think about Rilke , who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer I believe…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come…

— Terry Tempest Williams