quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

"Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?"
— Terry Tempest Williams

"I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes."
— Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place)

"The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves."
— Terry Tempest Williams

""The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.""
— Terry Tempest Williams (Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert)

"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. "
— Terry Tempest Williams

"memory is the only way home.

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— Terry Tempest Williams

"Tortoise 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 Williams