Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Wind, Water, Community

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.129, Vintage

• Landscape shapes culture

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  Culture, Shapes, Landscape

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.135, UNM Press

• I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

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  Church, Missionary, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

• There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar to Mormonism - it's any patriarchy that I think stops, thwarts, or denies our creativity.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Peculiar

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creativity, Voice, Culture

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

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  Speaks Out, Culture, Sin

• Lanscape shapes culture.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Land, Culture, Shapes

• The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

• John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Thinking, Whales

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.175, Vintage

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