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Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
Author
Essayist
Historian
Memoirist
Poet
Writer
Corona
California
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Broken
Beauty
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