Terry Tempest Williams Journey Into Self Spirituality Essay -- Litera

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, a feminist, a writer who brings such power into everything she touches. Herself driven passion with her positive outlook and drive for change has brought so much goodness into this world. She has overcome many obstacles, including her own struggle within herself, but has last realized that the fight with nature is the same fight we have with ourselves, and ultimately accepting the outcome; whatever that may be unnatural, or natural, is the secret to life. Terry is a Mormon who grew up in Utah, loving nature and striving to keep it natural. She never understood why there were so many people that didn’t care. She found peace in serenity in a bird refuge. She came to the bird refuge many, many times. This was her sanctuary, where things made sense. The bird refuge in the Great Salt Lake is home to her, and her family before her. Her grandmother taught her so much of the ways of the lake, the animals, and how it was to be conserved. She often went back to her child memories where she spent most of her days there with the birds, just watching how they live their life in so much peace, unaware of all of the hurtful pieces of life outside of their home. â€Å"This is another paradox of mine, wanting to be a bird when I am human.† (Williams,R 266) There was one particular place that was her favorite; she would come to watch owls nest. They would nest in the same spot year after year. On one occasion she had come to see them, watching their heads pop up, and they were gone. A truck full of construction workers were making fun of her as they thought the owls were no big deal. She was polite, as a good Mormon girl should be, she smiled and stuck out her middle finger at them and walked awa... ...lear testing in the Nevada Desert, and again later, she has written many books of her own struggles in life along with her spirituality, she has abandoned that confinement of being a good Mormon girl to make changes in this world. Her faith is strong, she has adapted. â€Å"Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.† (Williams, B 385). Works Cited Riley, Jeannette E. "Finding One's Place in the "Family of Things":Terry Tempest Williams and a Geography of Self.." Womens Studies. 32.5 (2003): 585-602. Print. Williams, Terry T. Finding Beauty in a Broken World. 1st. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008. Williams, Terry T. Leap. Vintage, 2001. Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge, An Unnatural History Of Family And Place. Vintage, 1991. Williams, Terry T."The Moment I Became a Feminist ." progressive. (2011): n. page. Print.