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Terry Tempest Williams

"It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair."

Source : Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.77, Vintage

Terry Tempest Williams

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“When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.”

Source : "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.
“The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see”
“Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.”
“Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one and the same continuing process of endless growth. Building Zion, a literal Kingdom of God on earth, has therefore meant an identity of religious and economic values: in the daily affairs of the Kingdom, Latter-day Saint scriptures call for unity, welfare, and economic independence.”
“There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.”
“I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.”
“Shut up body and do what I tell you”
“Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!”

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