When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
Terry Tempest WilliamsWhen Emily Dickinson writes, โHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,โ she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.
Terry Tempest WilliamsAnd so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our livesโthe depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from usโthat shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.
Terry Tempest Williams