I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.
Terry Tempest WilliamsOur correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference.
Terry Tempest WilliamsMy family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change.
Terry Tempest Williams