429 Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.

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 are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

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.

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 making its way through our body into our cupped hands, we remember it is our destiny to make change.

At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that.

Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must finally be said. In the end, I see where my pencil has been leading me.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.