The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
Terry Tempest WilliamsSometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.
Terry Tempest WilliamsWhat I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each dayโthe invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.
Terry Tempest Williams