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I know, that Rilke quote - Beauty is the beginning of terror - I think about that a lot. It's that realization that we are so small, and yet we are so large in our capacity to relate to the beauty of things.

I know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization that we are so small, and yet we are so large in our capacity to relate to the beauty of things.

Terry Tempest Williams

Thinking, Realization, Capacity

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Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Terry Tempest Williams

Library, Storytelling, Form

Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.4, UNM Press

I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

Terry Tempest Williams

Daughter, Mother, Grief

Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.184, Vintage

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

Terry Tempest Williams

Thinking, Joy, Lines

Source: www.scottlondon.com

Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

Terry Tempest Williams

Honor, Desire, Needs

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

And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

Terry Tempest Williams

Beautiful, Hate, Loss

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

Terry Tempest Williams

Mean, Denial, Hunger

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