429 Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

I don’t set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It’s an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

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

Wilderness is an antidote to the war within ourselves.

Our correspondences have wings – paper birds that fly from my house to yours – flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together.

The story of the Utah prairie dog is the story of the range of our compassion. If we can extend our idea of community to include the lowliest of creatures, call them ‘the untouchables’, then we will indeed be closer to a path of peace and tolerance. if we cannot accommodate ‘the other’, the shadow we will see on our own home ground will be the forecast of our own species’ extended winter of the soul.

Terry, to keep hoping for life in the midst of letting go is to rob me of the moment I am in.

We’re human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.