Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams is the author of Pieces of White shell: A Journey to Navajoland; Coyote's Canyon; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, and An Unspoken Hunger. She is a naturalist with the Utah Museum of Natural History.

To be in relation to everything around us, above us, below us, earth, sky, bones, blood, and flesh, is to begin to see the world whole, even holy. But the world we frequently surrender to defies our participation and seduces us into believing our only place in nature is as spectator, onlooker. 1995 American Nature Writing .

 

There is a silence to creation. Ibid.

 

Not far, an old juniper stood in the clearing, deeply rooted and gnarled. I had never seen such a knowledgeable tree. Ibid.