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I don't think of myself as an American I see myself as a human being.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.
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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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Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.
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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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Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
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There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.
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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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