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Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.
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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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The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
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This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
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If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.
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I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to the truth. The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.
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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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The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.
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Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.
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I remember a phone call from a friend of mine who lives along the MacKenzie River. She said, This is the first year in twenty that the chinook salmon have not returned. This woman knows the names of things. This woman is committed to a place. And she sounded the alarm.
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Landscape shapes culture
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My body is a compass - and it does not lie.
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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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Agitation gives birth to creation.
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That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible
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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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Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.
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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.
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...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart of the southern Utah wilderness-then we can hear the voice of our conscience. If we listen to that voice, it asks us to be conscious. And if we become conscious we choose to live lives of consequence.
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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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