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Author: Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:
It is winter. Ravens are standing on a pile of bones -- black typeface on white paper picking an idea clean. It's what I do each time I sit down to write. What else are we to do with our obsessions? Do they feed us? Or are we simply scavenging our memories for one gleaming image to tell the truth of what is hunting us?'To write,' Marguerite Duras remarked, 'is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:
To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:
I received my first tutorial on voice. Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ The Hour of Land: A Personal
Freedom is a word like "love" or "health" that teeters on the edge of cliché until you don't have one or the other and you wish like hell that you did.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ The Hour of Land: A Personal
Humility is born in wildness. We are not protecting grizzlies from extinction; they are protecting us from the extinction of experience as we engage with a world beyond ourselves. The very presence of a grizzly returns us to an ecology of awe. We tremble at what appears to be a dream yet stands before us on two legs and roars.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ A Voice in the Wilderness:
The bear is above ground in spring and summer and below ground, hibernating, in fall and winter -- and she emerges with young by her side. I think that's a wonderful model for us, particularly as women. And it's one I've tried to adopt.If we choose to follow the bear, we will be saved from a distracted and domesticated life. The bear becomes our mentor. We must journey out, so that we might journey in. The bear mother enters the earth before snowfall and dreams herself through winter, emerging with young by her side. She not only survives the barren months, she gives birth. She is the caretaker of the unseen world. As a writer and a woman with obligations to both family and community, I have tried to adopt this ritual of balancing public and private life. We are at home in the deserts and mountains, as well as in our dens. Above ground in the abundance of spring and summer, I am available. Below ground in the deepening of autumn and winter, I am not. I need hibernation in order to create.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ Refuge: An Unnatural History
Terry, to keep hoping for life in the midst of letting go is to rob me of the moment I am in.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ Refuge: An Unnatural History
I must question everything, even if it means losing my faith, even if it means becoming a member of a border tribe among my own people. Tolerating blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ The Hour of Land: A Personal
The purpose of life is to see," the writer Jack Turner
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Terry Tempest Williams _ The Hour of Land: A Personal
Hindsight shows us our blind spots and biases; we can recognize ourselves as human beings caught in the cultural mores of a specific time.
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Terry Tempest Williams _ The Hour of Land: A Personal
If our national parks are to remain viable in the future, they must become sites of transformation where the paradigm of domination and manipulation ends and a vision of unison begins
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Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:
Mother had one quilt square made by a friend of hers framed, and hung it in her bathroom, where she saw it first thing in the morning. When I asked her why this mattered, she said, "It represents how women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
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