Terry Tempest Williams Quotes about Past

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Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Terry Tempest Williams

Nature, Animal, Past

Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.76, Vintage

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

Terry Tempest Williams

Responsibility, Past, Ties

Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.130, UNM Press