Bears Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I…

— Tara Brach

Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made…

— Dany Heatley

The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if…

— Starhawk

“If you want to be saved from your present suffering, you must be willing to change and be changed in the present. That change…

— Kerry Egan

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness;…

— Dick Francis

The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to…

— Pat Conroy

In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open…

— Tara Brach

“a changing environment changes us. The”

— Marshall Goldsmith

I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there…

— Paul Kagame

The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.

— Nicholas Kristof

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

— Mason Cooley