429 Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.

She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which have bound her are beginning to snap, as personal revelation replaces orthodoxy.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

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.

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.