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I love the interrelatedness of things.

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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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Corona
California
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Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.
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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.
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Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must finally be said. In the end, I see where my pencil has been leading me.
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I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
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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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We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.
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It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center.
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I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.
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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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The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
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Democracy is an insecure landscape.
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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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My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
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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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When I said, I am my mother, but I'm not, I was saying my path would be my own.
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I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.
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Lanscape shapes culture.
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Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.
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Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.
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