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To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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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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I love the interrelatedness of things.
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Democracy is an insecure landscape.
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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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The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.
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Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.
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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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