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Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams has given us a deep-running meditation on reaching for the sublime despite obstacles. Kirkus Reviews
The author of numerous powerfully loved books, including Refuge, Red, Leap, and An Unspoken Hunger, Terry Tempest Williams is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. In 2006, she received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She has also been given the Wallace Stegner Award by The Center for the American West, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Guggenheim. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah and Moose, Wyoming.
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 4.08 — 1,279 ratings — published 1992 2 editions |
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 4.03 — 208 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 3.85 — 206 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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The Open Space of Democracy by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 4.11 — 106 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 3.77 — 107 ratings — published 2008 |
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Leap by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 3.77 — 104 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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DESERT QUARTET: An Erotic Landscape by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 4.17 — 66 ratings — published 1995 |
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Pieces of White Shell by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 3.96 — 52 ratings — published 1984 2 editions |
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Coyote's Canyon by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 4.06 — 33 ratings — published 1990 2 editions |
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Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness by Terry Tempest Williams avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published 1996 |
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"This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.""
— Terry Tempest Williams (Leap)
— Terry Tempest Williams (Leap)
"The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves."
— Terry Tempest Williams
— Terry Tempest Williams
"I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes."
— Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place)
— Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place)
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