Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

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

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• The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

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• A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see.

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• Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

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• Memory is the only way home.

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• I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture.

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• Agitation gives birth to creation.

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• Words are much stronger than I am.

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• Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

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• There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

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

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• When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

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

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• Myth making is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

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• Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.

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• I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.

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• Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

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• There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

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• Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

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• I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.

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Terry Tempest Williams (23)

Birth:	8th September, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Writer

About

Terry Tempest Williams is an American author, conservationist and activist. Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah and its Mormon culture. Her work ranges from issues of ecology and wilderness preservation, to women's health, to exploring our relationship to culture and nature.

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