Author, activist and Dartmouth College professor Terry Tempest Williams writes about how our profound connections to land and nature come from the poetic crossing between physical motion and spiritual action. For Williams, this crossing exists when standing in “the vitality of the struggle,” a phrase she borrowed from Gertrude Stein. Williams is a woman who is standing tall within the thriving vitality of the climate struggle, by writing about and speaking out against the Book Cliffs Utah tar sands mining project, the oil shale development in the Colorado Plateau, and supporting the encampments of activists who are on the ground there. Williams’ work also pays important attention to the racism and historical displacement of Indigenous peoples that occurred to create national parks to protect wilderness. Photo credit: Terry Tempest Williams
