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 …

- Terry Tempest Williams

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…

- Terry Tempest Williams

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

- Terry Tempest Williams

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…

- Terry Tempest Williams

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

- Terry Tempest Williams

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

- Terry Tempest Williams

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…

- Terry Tempest Williams

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…

- Terry Tempest Williams

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.

- Terry Tempest Williams