It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center.
Terry Tempest WilliamsThere are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.
Terry Tempest WilliamsEach voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization that we are so small, and yet we are so large in our capacity to relate to the beauty of things.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah.
Terry Tempest Williams