429 Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

I can only say that I believe the Mormon Church is changing because the people inside the church are changing, particularly, the women. And if the women in the Mormon Church are changing, that means the men in the Mormon Church will change – slowly, reluctantly to be sure, but inevitably.

She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud.

I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother’s diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power.

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.

Landscape shapes culture.

I am a woman with wings,′ I once wrote and will revise these words again. ‘I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.’ In a voiced community, we all flourish.

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation – teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity – what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.