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Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.
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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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If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
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The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.
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The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.
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We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.
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Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
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We mask our needs as the needs of others.
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Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must finally be said. In the end, I see where my pencil has been leading me.
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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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I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.
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Pico Iyer describes his writing as intimate letters to a stranger, and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.
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Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
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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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