Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams celebrates the filmmaker as activist.read more

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Terry Tempest Williams enjoys watching her religion on stage.read more

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Why Rick Santorum is wrong about “Man” and “Earth.” (From an upcoming issue of The Progressive.)read more

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Each of us has our mentors, the individuals who showed us at an early age not only a different way of seeing the world, but a different way of being in the world. I found my mentor at the Teton Science School in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. His name was Ted Major. He was the first Democrat I had ever met. I was eighteen years old.

Today, Ted is ninety-one years old, and still as contemporary as anyone I know. He tends his fruit trees in Victor, Idaho, with his wife, Joan, of more than sixty years, and four generations of Majors living on their homestead. I am still learning from him.read more

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When he was taken away in handcuffs, so was any sense of justice in the United States of America.read more

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Terry Tempest Williams savors cherries and celebrates simple pleasures.read more

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Terry Tempest Williams communes with gorillas in Rwanda.read more

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I have never seen such a perverse skyline.read more

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Terry Tempest Williams identifies the moment she became a feminist.read more

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Read why Gasland should win the best documentary at the Oscar's tonight!read more

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Terry Tempest Williams returns to the sea.read more

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As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, let’s honor it with a name that is descriptive of what it is: a monument to wildness, to perspective, to all that is humble and grand among us.read more

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Stewart Udall urged us all to "have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the Earth.”read more

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The BP blowout and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are the same story. The plot is oil, and the arc of the story moves from our complicity to our complacency.read more

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Terry Tempest Williams offers an equation: “People plus place equals politics.”read more

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