Terry Tempest Williams

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Faith 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.

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

Conversation 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.

Finding one__ voice is a process of finding one__ passion.

Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.

In the desert I often whisper. Junipers are excellent sounding boards. They have been shaped by wing. Rocks seem to care nothing about what I say, yet when I speak to them, they feel porous, capable of receiving my words and taking them in as part of their history of brokenness.

We know the quality of another__ heart through her voice.

Once you know that you have a voice,_ Louis said, __t__ no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

Your voice is the wildest thing you own,_ Brooke says to me. __nd you__e giving it away. You can__ see it. Your obsession is blinding you._ He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. __ou__e losing yourself.

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.

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.

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.