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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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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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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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When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.
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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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We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.
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Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.
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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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We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same thing and say No, we are not rolling over and No, this is not a corporate enterprise. This is democracy in the fullest sense and we must have regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.
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Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
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We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.
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Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.
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The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.
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Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.
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Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.
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Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.
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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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A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.
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When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.
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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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As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.
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