All Terry Tempest Williams Quotes
- An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does. Cancer
- Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story… All
- Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. Beyond
- I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the… Another Way
- The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power Dare
- To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice. Asks
- I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change… Belief
- It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists,… Acknowledging
- What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we feel the blood… Birth
- What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed,… Backside
- I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white.… Appears
- The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. Action
- To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things. Down
- Storytelling is the oldest form of education. Education
- What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls? Adaptation
- I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure… Anglo
- The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat… Accustomed
- I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did… Along
- And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow… Artful
- My body is a compass - and it does not lie. Body
- Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life. Encore
- If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently. Differently
- To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. Honestly
- Agitation gives birth to creation. Agitation
- As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. Betray