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 comprehend words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.
Terry Tempest WilliamsWhen you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.
Terry Tempest WilliamsSometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.
Terry Tempest WilliamsI think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it isn't. It's the commitment, again, to stay with something - to go the duration. You can't walk away. It's like a marriage, only I think it's more difficult to divorce yourself from community than it is to a human being because the strands are interconnected and so various.
Terry Tempest Williams