"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be."

“I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.”
“Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.”

Source : "BOOKMARK: Terry Tempest Williams on the perspective of nature and healing". Interview with Laurie Hertzel, www.startribune.com. June 30, 2017.
“There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.”
“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”
“We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.”
“We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.”
“Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with the spacing and the intensity of imagery on the form in a way which I could not. So that when we established our pottery, I was most unhappy with my decoration.”
“Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.”

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