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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c985fcb | 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 risin.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 02c152a | Can you be inside and outside at the same time? I think this is where I live. I think this is where most women live. I know this is where writers live. Inside to write. Outside to glean. | women-writers-on-writing | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 66b5d62 | 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 | ||
| ad8084e | The desert has its own currency and it is measured in water. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 96c9cbc | Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| ffd9ffb | 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 | ||
| 6444b38 | 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 | ||
| 155bef6 | 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. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| b7a7bdb | 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 | ||
| 868576d | 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 | environment land national-parks nature | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 43d5eea | 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 | ||
| f7a48d4 | 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 | ||
| 97d69c7 | 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 | ||
| a762228 | The purpose of life is to see," the writer Jack Turner" | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 2e726e7 | 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 | ||
| 60de81e | 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 | ||
| 231bd93 | The bear is above ground in spring and summer and below ground, hibernating, in fall and winter -- and she emerges with young by her side. I think that's a wonderful model for us, particularly as women. And it's one I've tried to adopt. If we choose to follow the bear, we will be saved from a distracted and domesticated life. The bear becomes our mentor. We must journey out, so that we might journey in. The bear mother enters the earth befo.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 4467ded | 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" | Bathroom Readers' Institute | ||
| 3481a76 | empowerment. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 43e3786 | 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. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 1f83163 | Freedom is a word like "love" or "health" that teeters on the edge of cliche until you don't have one or the other and you wish like hell that you did." | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| fd08b4e | I received my first tutorial on voice. Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 9fd37e9 | What a dull world if we knew all about geese! | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 4dce6df | The end of her life was only the beginning of her story. Sweet Sleep | paranormal-romance | Kim Cormack | |
| 52f2e3d | She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again | Kim Cormack | ||
| 9cce18e | Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker. | Joseph H. Hertz | ||
| d81c031 | Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity. | Joseph H. Hertz | ||
| 8af702a | Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count, ne'er made a man. | Man | ||
| dbd0a6c | In other words, we saved an animal from extinction just so we could start killing it again. How messed up is that? | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 5610e2c | When I beheld this I sighed, and said within myself, Surely man is a Broomstick! | Man | ||
| 430ff9e | Engineers did not discover insulation: they copied it from these old soldiers of the prairie war. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 1ecffc5 | Man is man, and master of his fate. | Man | ||
| 3847dc6 | Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 56fc5d4 | He sits all day on the terrace of the Brokers' Club watching women pass, with the restless eye of someone endlessly shuffling through an old soiled pack of cards. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 3740414 | The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| a5a6495 | There are a few sections of uncut timber, luckily state-owned. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 7e80588 | It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| f0ff406 | This is nothing of medical interest -- a small chill. Diseases are not interested in those who want to die.' And then with one of those characteristic swerves of association, like a swallow turning in mid-air she added, 'Oh! Nessim, I have always been so strong. Has it prevented me from being truly loved? | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 7dacaee | Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 3a0221b | Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually to a ray falls slowly through the dark masses of cloud to the east. The ripple and flurry of the invisible colonies of birds around us increases. Slowly, painfully, like a half-open door the dawn is upon us, forcing back the darkness. A minute more and a stairway of soft kingcups slides smoothly dow.. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 947dfb1 | Nature had combined in him the features of a degenerate pope and the torpor of a crocodile, and to these had added a voice of unconscionable harshness. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 7350e61 | INTRODUCTION IT LOOKS AND FEELS like a book, I know, but I promise you that what you hold in your hand is an axe. A paper axe, it's true, but an axe nonetheless. I'll explain. Jericho Mosaic is the capstone of Ted Whittemore's Jerusalem Quartet, one of the most ambitious literary endeavors of the 20th Century. Like Robert Musil's Man of Qualities and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Whittemore's magnum opus explores the great themes o.. | Edward Whittemore | ||
| 6b11be3 | These notes, however they may be read, are intended only as a painstaking affectionate commentary on a world into which I have been born to share my most solitary moments -- those of coitus -- with Justine. I can get no nearer to the truth. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| d7a8f48 | A million muffin-eating moralists were waiting, not for us, Brother Ass, but for the plucky and tedious Trollope! | Lawrence Durrell |