How do you feel about the place you call home?

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.

Growing up in Utah, Terry Tempest Williams' grandmother taught her to use field guides as a kind of sacred text.

This love of nature shaped how she looks at the world today.

I love Great Salt Lake. I think it's a magical place. It's our Serengeti. It's a beautiful reflective mirror that calls birds home.

I think it's heaven.

Stay with us as Terry Tempest Williams shares lessons that her mother, her grandmother, and even the land

itself have imparted. And it's a bedrock truth. Let us be conservative.

Let us be prudent.

Let us protect these lands that define us as Americans

and protect what protects us.

Plus, a tour guide from Italy tells us what it's like to be alone with nature at night in the Sahara Desert.

You have to put the sunglasses because even without the moon, there are so many stars and so white.

There's wisdom from the desert in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steve's.

We'll get a view of the world from a motor bike in the Sahara Desert in just a bit on today's travel with Rick Steve's.

First film, I have the good fortune to talk with Terry Tempest Williams.

She's hard to classify, but there's no doubt she's a remarkable voice whose intelligence, passion, and compassion are inspiring.

She's an intellectual, a naturalist, and an outspoken environmental activist on behalf of her native Utah and the Western United States.

Her books often read like poetry as she explores themes of spirituality, conservation, of natural history, women's issues, and of the impact of her family's

Mormon heritage on her own identity today.

In her book, when women were birds, Terry tackles a mystery her mother left behind after her death,

and she explores how that puzzle influences her own voice many years later.

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