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If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers of a quivering heart.
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We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.
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I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
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Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.
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I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.
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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.
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