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Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a conspiracy against higher thoughts.
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I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
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To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.
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What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
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Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.
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If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.
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How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.
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Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at Great Salt Lake. For me, this is the nature of peace. Our task is to learn how to see it, feel it, hear it, and care for these places as our own home ground.
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Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
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It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center.
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Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
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What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.
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To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
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My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
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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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To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
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There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
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I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.
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The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.
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