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The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
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Terry Tempest Williams
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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
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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
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The Hour of Land: A Personal
The purpose of life is to see," the writer Jack Turner
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Terry Tempest Williams
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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
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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
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The Hour of Land: A Personal
How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are.-Laurance S. Rockefeller"
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Terry Tempest Williams
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The Hour of Land: A Personal
Where do I belong? You can't belong everywhere. Or perhaps we can if we pay attention to the paths of our ancestors. Perhaps this is what it means to be American. Bloodlines originate in storylines. Some people stay in place, others move on. But if we look back far enough, we are all interconnected, interrelated, through place and race and time. *
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Terry Tempest Williams
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Awe is the moment when ego surrenders to wonder. This is our inheritance- the beauty before us. We cry. We cry out. There is nothing sentimental about facing the desert bare. It is a terrifying beauty.
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Terry Tempest Williams
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The Hour of Land: A Personal
I love the concept of unity and diversity … most decisions are based on a tiny difference. People say this was right and that wrong-the difference was a feather … I keep scales wherever I am to remind me of that … They're a symbol of my awareness of the distortion most people have of what's better and what isn't. LSR
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Terry Tempest Williams
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The Hour of Land: A Personal
The world is not a safe place. Perhaps it never has been, but it is still a beautiful place. This is the disorienting truth of the Colorado Plateau: We stand on the edge of a great erosion landscape. The silence before us translates into deep time. We look not simply toward a linear horizon but a curved one where the planet becomes a globe spinning toward change.
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Terry Tempest Williams
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The Hour of Land: A Personal
The desert has its own currency and it is measured in water.
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The Hour of Land: A Personal
I wish I was at p{peace now, but the desert has become my heartbreak. Perhaps that is the nature of deserts- to break us open, wear us down to bedrock.
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