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Terry Tempest Williams quotes: To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly. To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: We mask our needs as the needs of others. We mask our needs as the needs of others.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert. In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear. When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here. But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls? What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice. To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper. Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Democracy is an insecure landscape. Democracy is an insecure landscape.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life. Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I care about my brother.I care about wilderness.To care is to lament.My brother is a wilderness, unknowable. I care about my brother.
I care about wilderness.
To care is to lament.
My brother is a wilderness, unknowable.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed. We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked. Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me. Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years. It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see. Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families. There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt. When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes. I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain. If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in the front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady. Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in the front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Dare to be burned by the heat of our own ambitious hearts. Dare to be burned by the heat of our own ambitious hearts.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home. Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human. What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty. My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures. We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home. I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: My grandmother simply shook her head and said, You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you. My grandmother simply shook her head and said, You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel. When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own. Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: This is a landscape that should not be sold. This is a landscape that should not be sold.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart. My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle. I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship. What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Did I have the courage to forge a path Did I have the courage to forge a path
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meetwithin the chambers of a quivering heart. I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet
within the chambers of a quivering heart.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul. The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens. We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away. Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Storytelling is the oldest form of education. Storytelling is the oldest form of education.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse. The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one. No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: If you waste water, you die. If you waste water, you die.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep. I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them. Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience. Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: There becomes little doubt as to why power chooses to support power. Rwanda becomes invisible once again. We have nothing America wants. There becomes little doubt as to why power chooses to support power. Rwanda becomes invisible once again. We have nothing America wants.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath ... Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward. Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath ... Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot - the taproot of consciousness.It will survive us. Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot - the taproot of consciousness.
It will survive us.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue. Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering. The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit. The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening. Each of us has one. 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 quotes: All we have is time. All we have is time.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things. To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Respect is primary. Respect is primary.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: To be numb to the world is another form of suicide. To be numb to the world is another form of suicide.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside. Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference. I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored. Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others. I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you. The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others. Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Devil spelled backward is Lived. Devil spelled backward is Lived.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts ... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts ... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The difference between fear and awe is a matter of our eyes adjusting. The difference between fear and awe is a matter of our eyes adjusting.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that. At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Finding one's voice is a process of finding one's passion. Finding one's voice is a process of finding one's passion.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Roland Barthes says, That which cannot be named is a disturbance. Roland Barthes says, That which cannot be named is a disturbance.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: words are much stronger than I am. words are much stronger than I am.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: And all your Faithless doubts Will not destroy The rising spring In me. And all your Faithless doubts Will not destroy The rising spring In me.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival. Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: It is where we embrace our questions ... Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? It is where we embrace our questions ... Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own. When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy. Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Wilderness is an antidote to the war within ourselves. Wilderness is an antidote to the war within ourselves.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think. Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious. A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: There is no one true church, no one chosen people. There is no one true church, no one chosen people.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: memory is the only way home. memory is the only way home.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions. I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: My body is a compass - and it does not lie. My body is a compass - and it does not lie.
Terry Tempest Williams quotes: The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

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