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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.”

251. “Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.”

252. “As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.”

253. “There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand – what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for – Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind.”

254. “People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand – what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for – Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother’s journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn’t that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.”

255. “I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother’s journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn’t that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “Our fate like the fate of all species, is determined by chance, by circumstance, and by grace.”

256. “Our fate like the fate of all species, is determined by chance, by circumstance, and by grace.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.”

257. “If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild.”

258. “My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you’re home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.”

259. “Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you’re home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “Our rivers are shrinking. Our lands are blowing away. And our lawmakers from our president to our legislators, both federal and state, are in denial of the one hard fact: We must change our lives, our politics, our beliefs, our actions, if we are going to survive.”

260. “Our rivers are shrinking. Our lands are blowing away. And our lawmakers from our president to our legislators, both federal and state, are in denial of the one hard fact: We must change our lives, our politics, our beliefs, our actions, if we are going to survive.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “The mind creates those things that exist.”

261. “The mind creates those things that exist.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “Reading has not only changed my life but saved it. the right picked at the right time – especially the one that scares us, threatens to undermine all we have been told, the one that contains forbidden thoughts – these are the books that become Eve’s apples.”

262. “Reading has not only changed my life but saved it. the right picked at the right time – especially the one that scares us, threatens to undermine all we have been told, the one that contains forbidden thoughts – these are the books that become Eve’s apples.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “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.””

263. “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.””

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “We’re human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.”

264. “We’re human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?”

265. “The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.”

266. “I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “I was not born here by my consciousness towards a land ethic was.”

267. “I was not born here by my consciousness towards a land ethic was.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.”

268. “To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “Today majesty is the length from where I stand to the summit of the mountain we are climbing. This mountain has majesty and hold its own authority above all others.”

269. “Today majesty is the length from where I stand to the summit of the mountain we are climbing. This mountain has majesty and hold its own authority above all others.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.”

270. “I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud.”

271. “She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “I write as a witness to what I have seen.”

272. “I write as a witness to what I have seen.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.”

273. “Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “We are slowly returning to the hour of land where our human presence can take a side step and respect the integrity of the place itself – paying attention to its own historical and ecological character beyond our needs and desires. This kind of generosity of spirit requires an uncommon humility to listen to the land first.”

274. “We are slowly returning to the hour of land where our human presence can take a side step and respect the integrity of the place itself – paying attention to its own historical and ecological character beyond our needs and desires. This kind of generosity of spirit requires an uncommon humility to listen to the land first.”

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Terry Tempest Williams Quote: “We are bathed in light, endless light, sometimes volatile, ever changing. We watch weather as one watches fire.”

275. “We are bathed in light, endless light, sometimes volatile, ever changing. We watch weather as one watches fire.”

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