“ Our fate like the fate of all species, is determined by chance, by circumstance, and by grace. Terry Tempest Williams
“ My grandmother simply shook her head and said, You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you. Terry Tempest Williams
“ It is a day of angled light and flat-bottomed clouds floating in a turquoise sky. Terry Tempest Williams
“ If our national parks are to remain viable in the future, they must become sites of transformation where the paradigm of domination and manipulation ends and a vision of unison begins Terry Tempest Williams
“ I will never be able to say what is in my heart, because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned. There… Terry Tempest Williams
“ I want you to read ‘God Sees the Truth, but Waits,’ said Mother. Tolstoy writes about a man, wrongly accused of a murder, who spends the rest of his life in a prison camp. Twenty-six years later, as… Terry Tempest Williams
“ I love the concept of unity and diversity … most decisions are based on a tiny difference. People say this was right and that wrong—the difference was a feather … I keep scales wherever I am to remind… Terry Tempest Williams
“ I have refused to believe that Mother will die. And by denying her cancer, even her death, I deny her life. Denial stops us from listening. I cannot hear what Mother is saying. I can only hear what I… Terry Tempest Williams
“ I care about my brother.I care about wilderness.To care is to lament.My brother is a wilderness, unknowable. Terry Tempest Williams
“ I believe that spiritual resistance -- the ability to stand firm at the center of our convictions when everything around us asks us to concede, that our capacity to face the harsh measures of a life,… Terry Tempest Williams
“ I am of this place. Family is a place, and my family s located here, those who are living and those who have passed. I am am settled in the scent of sage, Mount Moran's reflection at Oxbow Bend is mor… Terry Tempest Williams
“ Flocks of magpies have descended on our yard. I cannot sleep for all their raucous behavior. Perched on weathered fences, their green-black tales, long as rulers, wave up and down, reprimanding me for… Terry Tempest Williams
“ Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. Terry Tempest Williams
“ The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our at… Terry Tempest Williams
“ What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to listen. I have talked to myself for years in the privacy of my journals. Terry Tempest Williams
“ We borrow. We steal. We purchase what we need and buy what we don't. We acquire things, people, places, all in the process of losing ourselves. Busyness is the religion of distraction. I cannot talk t… Terry Tempest Williams
“ Today, everyone thinks we need to stay positive and hopeful and not be completely honest about what we are seeing, what we know to be true. Whether we're talking about climate change or what's occurri… Terry Tempest Williams
“ To see the yellow fritillaries burst forth after the deep snows of winter and know that the bears are soon to follow is to be attentive to wild nature’s seasonal fugue of infinite composition and succ… Terry Tempest Williams
“ The time has come for acts of reverence and restraint on behalf of the Earth. We have arrived at the Hour of Land. Terry Tempest Williams
