Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• 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 attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Trust, Giving Up, Home

  Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The human heart is the first home of democracy.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Heart, Democracy

  Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• memory is the only way home.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Memories, Home, Way

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.4, Vintage

• I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with our own neighbors, and within our own homes and families.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Home, Community

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . . then I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home . . . If we are not rooted deeply in place, making that commitment to dig in and stay put . . . then I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. Then we enter a place of true desolation.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Home, Commitment

• I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Source: progressive.org

• Home is where we have a history.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Home, Community

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Laughter, Home, Community

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Radical, Commit

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

• I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

• I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Cutting, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

• I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Thinking, Differences

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at Great Salt Lake. For me, this is the nature of peace. Our task is to learn how to see it, feel it, hear it, and care for these places as our own home ground.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Lakes, Mountain

  Source: therumpus.net

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