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I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that is what other people call you. But I consider myself a member of a community in Salt Lake City, in Utah, in the American West, in this country. And writing is what I do. That is the tool out of which I can express my love.
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My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
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I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.
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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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Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.
Terry Tempest Williams
What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.
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