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Bathroom Readers' Institute
Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. -Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry, to keep hoping for life in the midst of letting go is to rob me of the moment I am in.
Terry Tempest Williams
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.
Terry Tempest Williams
The purpose of life is to see, the writer Jack Turner
Terry Tempest Williams
Hindsight shows us our blind spots and biases; we can recognize ourselves as human beings caught in the cultural mores of a specific time.
Terry Tempest Williams
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
Terry Tempest Williams
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.
Terry Tempest Williams
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. *
Terry Tempest Williams
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
Terry Tempest Williams
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.
Terry Tempest Williams
Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked.
Terry Tempest Williams
Devil spelled backward is Lived.
Terry Tempest Williams
The desert has its own currency and it is measured in water.
Terry Tempest Williams
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.
Terry Tempest Williams
I personally have seen flamingos throughout the state of Utah perched proudly on lawns and in the gravel gardens of trailer courts. These flamingos, of course, are not Phoenicopterus ruber, but pink, plastic flamingos that can easily be purchased at any hardware store.It is curious that we need to create an environment foreign from our own. In 1985, over 450,000 plastic flamingos were purchased in the United States. And the number is rising. Pink flamingos teetering on suburban lawns - our unnatural link to the natural world.
Terry Tempest Williams
I fear silence because it leads me to myself, a self I may not wish to confront. It asks that I listen. And in listening, I am taken to an unknown place. Silence leaves me alone in a place of feeling. It is not necessarily a place of comfort.
Terry Tempest Williams
Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not.
Terry Tempest Williams
In this era where the war on terror is used as an excuse to exploit and plunder, and sell off our public lands, in this new world where the World Bank and World Trade Organization honor corporate rule over local enterprises, and where environmental issues are being usurped in the favor of more jobs and a robust economy, Where is the place for wilderness?
Terry Tempest Williams
Evidently, selling off America's public lands is not only good for democracy, but good for the economy. It will pay the bills for building more roads and make up for the losses in the decline of timber sales. It will also help pay for the war in Iraq, a war predicted on lies. The outcry is faint. The streets are empty. We are comfortable here in the United States of America. We the people seem to be asleep, numb, and dead to the liberties being lost.
Terry Tempest Williams
Today, everyone thinks we need to stay positive and hopeful and not be completely honest about what we are seeing, what we know to be true. Whether we're talking about climate change or what's occurring on the streets in Ferguson, we are so afraid of offending people...and then, we only talk to our own constituencies and its' the same rhetoric over and over again until the words become bloodless. {p. 325}
Terry Tempest Williams
Our species is committing suicide- that is a choice -and in the process, we are causing others pain.
Terry Tempest Williams
I care about my brother.I care about wilderness.To care is to lament.My brother is a wilderness, unknowable.
Terry Tempest Williams
To see the yellow fritillaries burst forth after the deep snows of winter and know that the bears are soon to follow is to be attentive to wild nature's seasonal fugue of infinite composition and succession. The great gray owl sitting on a snag near Sawmill Ponds is not simply a bird but a heightened intelligence with golden eyes behind a mask of feathers.
David Gessner
Forty years later, in 1995, Terry Tempest Williams, working with the Utah writer Stephen Trimble, put together Testimony: Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness, an anthology of the work of twenty writers whose purpose was to help preserve 1.9 million acres of land in southern Utah. Just as with This Is Dinosaur, the book was distributed to every member of Congress. It was part of the effort that led to the creation of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. At the monument's dedication on September 18, 1996, President Bill Clinton held up the book and said, This made a difference.
Terry Tempest Williams
Good work is a stay against despair.
Terry Tempest Williams
We form the future by being caretakers of our past.
Terry Tempest Williams
We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay. Life spirals in and then spirals out on any given day. It does not have to be one way, one truth, one voice. Nor does love have to be all or nothing. Neither does power. What is positive and what is negative is not absolute.
Terry Tempest Williams
We are a tribe of fractured individuals who can now only celebrate remnants of wildness.
Terry Tempest Williams
Species other than man have rights, too. Having finished all the requisites of our proud, materialistic civilization, our neon-lit society, does nature, which is the basis of our existence, have the right to live on? Do we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness this right?
Terry Tempest Williams
The time has come for acts of reverence and restraint on behalf of the Earth. We have arrived at the Hour of Land.
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