Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Survival

Quotes about: Survival

• Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Art, Creativity, Survival

  "Ground Truthing". Interview with Devon Fredericksen, www.guernicamag.com. August 1, 2013.

• An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Inspirational, Cancer, Survival

  Terry Tempest Williams (1991). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, Vintage

• John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Thinking, Whales

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.175, Vintage

• In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Land, Priorities, Survival

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

• Thomas Berry calls the Ecozoic Era, a time when we recognize the imperative of caring for the planet as a means of compassionate survival. We do not know what the outcome is going to be, but we have an opportunity to make these kinds of creative and imaginative leaps of thought and actions both locally and globally. This is completely antithetical to the direction George W. Bush is leading this nation. I do trust that the open space of democracy is ultimately the open space of our hearts and that we can follow our own leadership that carries a long-term view way beyond "four more years."

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Heart, Mean, Caring

  Source: progressive.org

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