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If you are interested in the fragility of our National Parks system this book is a must read. I've since read quite a few books by authors I respect regarding their opinions about the scarcity of protected land and Terry Tempest Williams is as sentimental and well researched as they come. I love her sentimentality and her, sometimes, mushy language. The establishment of these places were created for a reason and are most in danger due to the current administration. Williams takes on all politics across the divide and no one comes away smelling of roses. Williams is completely bias-she is always on the side of land and the life/lives the land supports- I love that about her. I have always thought the strength of our species is the capacity to love what cannot love us back. Williams understands this about humans- here is one of her many brilliant musings: "The legacy of the Wilderness Act is a legacy of care. It is an ac of loving beyond ourselves, beyond our species, beyond our own time. To honor wildlands and wild lives that we may never see, much less understand, is to acknowledge the world does not revolve around us. The Wilderness Act is an act of respect that protects the land and ourselves from our own annihilation." The passage sums the book up perfectly and is the soul of each and every essay. A wide range of topics are discussed in each essay from the BP oil spill and the people along the Bayou whom's stories we never heard, to certain fish, bird and mammal populations which are gravely in danger. Williams also spills some memoir in here as well which is welcome to truly understanding the compassion behind her observations. "The Hour of Land" should be required school reading.


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The Hour of Land A Personal Topography of America National Parks Terry Tempest Williams Terry Williams Books Reviews

A must read for nature lovers. Terry Tempest William's The Hour of Land is truly a must read in my opinion. This book was so eloquently written bringing up great points about the past, present, and future of nature and its conservation.
She writes like a poet - thoroughly enjoying her writing and insights on the land, family & history. Highly recommend this book to anyone interested in touring the nation's parks, and a wonderfully well-written book for anyone appreciative of prose and insightful musings.
William's reminisces of her adventures in a number of parks/monuments as well as her own and other's poetic descriptions and expressions of awe make for pleasurable reading. These musings are accompanied with the history of parks, especially the controversies surrounding their establishment. Her advocacy for the preservation of wild and historic places is evident and includes the current day controversy surrounding, for example, Bears Ears.
More of a memoir than a travel guide, The Hour of Land, I’m willing to bet, is unlike any of the many books that are currently being published to coincide with National Parks Centennial. Terry Tempest Williams has written about 12 National Parks and Monuments in layers surface descriptions through the eyes of someone who has spent much of her life watching, wandering, and wondering; and then all that is beneath the surface including the political maneuvering and legislation that created them; the dark energy that threatens them. But also their magic and mystery and their role as a source of imagination and possibility. We realize that the deeper we look into these places—which may be as close as what we, in America, have to call “Sacred Lands—the better we know ourselves. The post-modern black and white photos (Sebastio Salgado, Sally Mann, Robert Adams, Emmet Gowin among them) tell their own story and their selection and positioning within the book become clues to a magic riddle for which each reader is sure to find his or her own unique solution. This thrilling book, may be her best yet.
A worthy subject taken on by a sincere environmentalist, but spoiled by self indulgence. Williams has quite a following, and it is clear she has a talent for engaging the eye in Nature. For example, I loved her walk into a canyon in Big Bend when her husband walked naked and she reported on insects. I also liked her report on the monument of presidents in South Dakota, seeing it through her disillusioned father’s eyes. But in whole, the mixture of family relationships and environmentalism was too mysterious and fragmentary to be satisfying.
Terry Tempest Williams is an environmentalist, author, and poet who tours a number of National Parks and shares her deep spiritual experiences there, her love of nature, her outrage at the destruction of our treasures, and even the history we need to understand. Her writing often is poetic and stirring. Occasionally this format loses the reader, but is never dull. One comes away with a deeper appreciation of these American treasures.
What begins as a personal memoir of love, land and family gradually transforms into a call to arms in the battle against climate change and the status quo responsible for it. This is a masterful work that will touch you deeply and perhaps even inspire you to take action. TTW has never written better than she does in this work, she has never been more open and passionate. I really can't describe how profoundly I have been moved by this book.
If you are interested in the fragility of our National Parks system this book is a must read. I've since read quite a few books by authors I respect regarding their opinions about the scarcity of protected land and Terry Tempest Williams is as sentimental and well researched as they come. I love her sentimentality and her, sometimes, mushy language. The establishment of these places were created for a reason and are most in danger due to the current administration. Williams takes on all politics across the divide and no one comes away smelling of roses. Williams is completely bias-she is always on the side of land and the life/lives the land supports- I love that about her. I have always thought the strength of our species is the capacity to love what cannot love us back. Williams understands this about humans- here is one of her many brilliant musings "The legacy of the Wilderness Act is a legacy of care. It is an ac of loving beyond ourselves, beyond our species, beyond our own time. To honor wildlands and wild lives that we may never see, much less understand, is to acknowledge the world does not revolve around us. The Wilderness Act is an act of respect that protects the land and ourselves from our own annihilation." The passage sums the book up perfectly and is the soul of each and every essay. A wide range of topics are discussed in each essay from the BP oil spill and the people along the Bayou whom's stories we never heard, to certain fish, bird and mammal populations which are gravely in danger. Williams also spills some memoir in here as well which is welcome to truly understanding the compassion behind her observations. "The Hour of Land" should be required school reading.