Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

Terry Tempest Williams's Popular Quotes

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vul…

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Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through …

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

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If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the deser…

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I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and compreh…

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To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

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When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

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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. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we mi…

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To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

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