429 Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.

I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together—the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired.

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild.

Wilderness holds an original presence giving expression to that which we lack, the losses we long to recover, the absences we seek to fill. Wilderness revives the memory of unity. Through its protection we can find faith in our humanity.

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.