Terry Tempest Williams - Erosion | Bioneers

This keynote talk was delivered at the 2019 Bioneers Conference. View more videos, articles, and more from the 2019 Conference at bioneers.org/2019talks
Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers Co-Founder and Chief Relationship Strategist.
Wind, water, and time are agents of erosion evident in the desert. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation from the Great Smokies to the Grand Canyon. But Terry Tempest Williams is also seeing another kind of erosion in America: erosion of democracy; erosion of science, decency, compassion, and trust. “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?” she asks. “What if our undoing leads us to our becoming? We are eroding and evolving, at once.” Terry Tempest Williams, one of this country’s most beloved authors and defenders of public lands, and social and environmental justice, comes to us from her desert home in Utah. She writes, “Beauty is its own resistance. Water can crack stone.”
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[@bluesskywoman]

Terry Tempest Williams you are amazing. So very grateful you are on Gaia now. Blessings and peace to you and all that you love.

[@lauriearmer6034]

Thank you for your inspiring and heartfelt words. They apply to us all and I am grateful I was able to listen to you. Thank you thank you.

[@JackHumphrey]

boom

[@jsmariani4180]

SE Utah is now a playground for young out of tune recreationalists.