429 Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the delicacy of our relations. It is this tenderness born out of a connection to place that fuels my writing. Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

Home is where we have a history.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.