429 Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, “Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in.”

My mother’s journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive.

The difference between fear and awe is a matter of our eyes adjusting.

Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others – what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.

Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue.

My body is a compass – and it does not lie.

True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.

I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother’s journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn’t that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.

The time has come for acts of reverence and restraint on behalf of the Earth. We have arrived at the Hour of Land.