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I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.
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I don't think of myself as an American I see myself as a human being.
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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 think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.
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The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.
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Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.
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I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.
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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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When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.
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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 unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
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When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.
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Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
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