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TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands ⌠ENCORE⌡ /233

For The Wild

For The Wild

Philosophy, Society & Culture, For The Wild, Anthropocene, Story Telling, Religion & Spirituality, Decolonization, Progressive, Liberation, Land, Media

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week’s encore episode, originally broadcast in October of 2017, invites insight into renewed relational understanding of home, sacred rage, and protecting the breathing spaces of public lands. Terry Tempest Williams guides us to explore acts of the imagination as we shift into consciousness and expand our sense of family to both human and wild. As so many of us grapple with the omnipresent question of “what do we do?”, Terry provides us with salve through stories of the beauty and power of our gifts, and the living histories of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her most recent book is The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks Music by Buffalo Rose, Kendra Swanson, and Aviva le Fey. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.Support the show

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Welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Mayani Young.

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This week we are re-broadcasting our interview with Terry Tempest-Williams,

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initially broadcasted in October of 2017.

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In this evergreen episode, Terry and I discuss public lands and the power of sacred rage.

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We hope you enjoy this special encore episode.

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I asked him how do you stay off despair?

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