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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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Essayist
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Poet
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Corona
California
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If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.
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My body is a compass - and it does not lie.
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I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.
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Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.
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To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.
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Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.
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I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.
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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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If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.
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Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic bombs above ground, when we watched them for entertainment from the roofs of our high schools, little did we know what was raining down on us, little did we know what would appear years later.
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The mind creates those things that exist.
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Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.
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Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.
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We mask our needs as the needs of others.
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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 would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.
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What I mean by An Unspoken Hunger. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.
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My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
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The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.
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Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.
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