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Nurturing
and Celebrating Our Connections with
Each Other
and with
Our World
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"The first peace, which is the most important is that which comes from
within the souls of men and women when they realize their relationship,
their oneness, with the Universe and all its powers."
Black Elk
"We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome
them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true
intelligence."
Albert Einstein
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"We are among the most important people who have ever lived. We will
determine whether humankind will grow or die, evolve or perish."
Jean
Houston
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
Dalai Lama
"As
we enter the 21st century, we are experiencing a moment of grace. Such
moments are privileged moments. The great transformations of the
universe occur at such times."
Thomas Berry
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"The
most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that
we are on the way to destroying the world-we've actually been on the
way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from
a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to
ourselves and each other."
Joanna Macy
"When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole, that is why I dance."
Hans Bos
"Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching"
"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."
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"So
here is my question," asks Williams, "what might a different kind of power
look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even
beyond our own species?"
Terry Tempest Williams
talk and book signing supporting her book
Finding Beauty in a Broken World![EarthSave]() .![findingbeauty]()
Monday, October 12 7pmThomas Jefferson Unitarian Church4936 Brownsboro Road
Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice.
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in association with
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Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge - An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger - Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red - Passion and Patience in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy.
Of Finding Beauty in a Broken World Publishers Weekly said : "The book, itself a skillful, nuanced mosaic (a conversation between what is broken... a conversation with light, with color, with form) uses this way of thinking about the world to convincingly make the connection between racism and specism and sensitively argues for respect for life in all its myriad forms. "
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Terry Tempest Williams "So here is my question," she asks, "what might a different kind of power look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?"
Williams, like her writing, cannot be categorized. She has served time in jail for acts of civil disobedience, testified before Congress on women's health issues, been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda.
Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge - An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger - Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red - Passion and Patience in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her new book Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World, will be published in 2008 by Pantheon Books.
In 2006, Ms. Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction.
Terry Tempest Williams is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah and Moose, Wyoming, where her husband Brooke Williams is the executive director of The Murie Center.
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