01UndatedA pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.Terry Tempest Williams / quote ↗
02UndatedConversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in a concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us. Words fly out of our mouths like threatened birds. Once released, they may never return. If they do, they have chosen home and the bird-worms are calmed into an ars poetica.Terry Tempest Williams / quote ↗
06UndatedOnce you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.Terry Tempest Williams / quote ↗
07UndatedYour voice is the wildest thing you own,” Brooke says to me. “And you’re giving it away. You can’t see it. Your obsession is blinding you.” He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. “You’re losing yourself.Terry Tempest Williams / quote ↗
09UndatedFaith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.Terry Tempest Williams / quote ↗
10UndatedI admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.Terry Tempest Williams / quote ↗
