Terry Tempest Williams is the author of numerous books, including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her most recent book is The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, which was published in June 2016 to coincide with and honor the centennial of the National Park Service. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Gods Among Us
MONUMENT VALLEY is a hallucination without drugs. It is a kaleidoscope of colors that turns by the sun’s wrist. Red sandstone bleeds into pink and deepens into lavender, fading into blue Continue reading
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The Glorious Indifference of Wilderness
The Gates of the Arctic are open. We arrived by wings. An Otter with wings delivered us here— It was here, a yellow-billed loon called from the lake. It was here, Continue reading
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What Love Looks Like
FROM THE MOMENT I HEARD about Bidder #70 raising his paddle inside a BLM auction to outbid oil and gas companies in the leasing of Utah’s public lands, I recognized Tim Continue reading
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Twibuke
AWOMAN STANDS AT THE OPENING of a descending staircase. Her eyes — her red-streaked eyes — see inside me as she puts her arm through mine. We kiss each other on Continue reading
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A Season of Remembrance
IN THE TOWN of Blue Hill on the coast of Maine, there is a field of small white flags, one flag placed for each soldier killed in the war in Iraq. Continue reading
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Engagement
This is the third essay in a three-part series by the author. See also part one, “Commencement“; and part two, “Ground Truthing.” IT IS UNUSUALLY STILL. I am standing in Mardy Continue reading
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Ground Truthing
This is the second essay in a three-part series by the author. See also part one, “Commencement“; and part three, “Engagement“ GROUNDING TRUTHING: The use of a ground survey to confirm Continue reading
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Commencement
This is the first essay in a three-part series by the author. See also part two, “Ground Truthing,” and part three, “Engagement.” SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 we have witnessed an escalation Continue reading
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Bearing Witness
“In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.” John Sawhill FOR MANY AMERICANS, the Bush-Cheney Energy Plan is Continue reading