An Unspoken Hunger Quotes

“Members of the Coyote Clan are not easily identified, but there are clues. You can see it in their eyes. They are joyful and they are fierce. They can cry louder and laugh harder than anyone on the planet. And they have an enormous range.

The Coyote Clan is a raucous bunch: they have drunk from desert potholes and belched forth toads. They tell stories with such virtuosity that you'll swear you've been in the presence of preachers.

The Coyote Clan is also serene. They can float on their backs down the length of any river or lose entire afternoons to the contemplation of stone.

Members of the Clan court risk and will dance on slickrock as flash floods erode the ground beneath their feet. It doesn't matter. They understand the earth re-creates itself day after day.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

“We hold the moon in our bellies and fire in our hearts. We bleed We give milk. We are the mothers of first words. These words grow. They are our children. They are our stores and poems.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

“Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

“We are a tribe of fractured individuals who can now only celebrate remnants of wildness.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

“Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

“Species other than man have rights, too. Having finished all the requisites of our proud, materialistic civilization, our neon-lit society, does nature, which is the basis of our existence, have the right to live on? Do we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness this right?”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

“If you take one step with all the knowledge you have, there is usually just enough light shining to show you the next step.’ ”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

“I've felt the pain that comes from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the delicacy of our relations. It is this tenderness born out of a connection to place that fuels my writing. Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the source of literature. We are healed by our stories.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

“The Greek goddess Artemis, whose name means bear, embodies the wisdom of the wild. Christine Downing, in her book The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine, describes her as 'the one who knows each tree by its bark or leaf or fruit, each beast by its footprint or spoor, each bird by its plumage or call or nest.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field