Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

Extremes can be right on no side.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and meet people and try new things, and you shouldn't be judged for it.

When I made TV shows, people called them regressive. Clearly, everyone wants to generalize everything, but I like to choose a middle path.

I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.

You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.