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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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Essayist
Historian
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Poet
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Corona
California
Culture
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Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.
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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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Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.
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Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.
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I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
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Landscape shapes culture
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Democracy is an insecure landscape.
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I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.
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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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I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.
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The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.
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I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.
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Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.
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I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?
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I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.
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We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.
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Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.
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When I said, I am my mother, but I'm not, I was saying my path would be my own.
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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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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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