Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams, is an American author, conservationist and activist. Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah and its Mormon culture. Her work ranges from issues of ecology and wilderness preservation, to women's health, to exploring our relationship to culture and nature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 September 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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making-love breathe communion
Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.
integrity names giving
I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back to the birds with our labels.
oil utah acres
In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests.
self-esteem school support
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
harmony formulas ritual
Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.
landscape needs speak
When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.
coats stories happens
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.
landscape culture shapes
Landscape shapes culture
speaks-out culture sin
I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.
never-trust macabre descent
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.
i-have-learned betray pencils
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.
destruction transformed
Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.
speaks-out land justice
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.
dogma kind evangelism
I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."