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“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.”

Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

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A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

This book features in-depth conversations with Terry Tempest Williams, exploring her perspectives on environmental issues, literature, and personal experiences. more

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Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams is an American author known for her profound insights into the relationship between humans and nature. Her works often explore themes such as environmental protection, feminism, and identity. more

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“I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.”

Ideas Light Cities Silence Wonder Darkness Higher Conspiracy City Lights

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

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“I know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization that we are so small, and yet we are so large in our capacity to relate to the beauty of things.”

Thinking Knows Capacity Terror Realization Relate

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“The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.”

Feels Doe Joy Understanding Our Lives Sorrow Range

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration comes in. It's not the place we want to be, but it's the place our society requires that we be. There is no fulfillment there. So we become numbed, we become drugged, we become less than we are. And I think that we know that.”

Thinking Knows Want My Own Surface Fulfillment Frustration Our Society My Own Life Skating

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.”

Knows Feels Ends Pain Joy Suffering Response Making Love Paradoxical

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about this word aware, which on the page looks like "aware," which speaks to both the pain and the beauty of our lives. Being there, what I perceived was that this is a sorrow that is not a grief that one forgets or recovers from, but it is a burning, searing illumination of love for the delicacy and strength of our relations.”

Looks Pain Speak Forget Grief Talking Our Lives Sorrow Pages Relation Burning Fascinating Paradox Illumination Being There Accommodate Delicacy Hiroshima

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."”

Mind Stories Chaos Engaged

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“John Cobb is saying that perhaps we are beginning to see that now as our greed goes completely out of control and everything is seen through money, through corporate power, etc., etc. We know it well. He asked the question, What will be the holocaust that takes us to the next era? - which he describes as "Earthism."”

Knows Wells Next Greed Eras Corporate Etc Holocaust

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten the grip, loosen the hold, of economism, I believe, is a discussion of the sacred born out of our regard and compassion and intelligence for the earth and the creatures on the earth.”

Believe Earth I Believe Born Compassion Creatures Destruction Regard Sacred Scales Discussion Midst Broads

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and what that means about living in harmony, in tandem with the natural world. We have much to learn from them, and they will survive us, I feel certain about that.”

Thinking World Feels Mean Certain Natural Powerful Roles Civilization Models Harmony West Role Models Sustainability Timeless Natural World Tandem American West

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

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