Author Terry Tempest Williams

Finding Beauty In A Broken World

From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
Length: 23:57

Terry Tempest Williams discusses her book which draws parallels between the Rwandan genocide and the plight of the Utah prairie dog Read the full description.

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Playing: Finding Beauty In A Broken World
From: James Mills

Ttw_color3_small Shattered. The broken pieces of a world torn apart by war and a planet devastated by greed and corruption lie scattered at our feet. In her new book, “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” poet and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams brings together the tattered fragments of our times into a literary mosaic of peace and reconciliation. From the charred ruins of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on 9/11, to endangered prairie dogs of Utah, to the creation of a memorial to the 10s of thousands who died in the Rwandan genocide, Williams constructs an image of hope for a brighter future, a journey toward a time when human beings and the world they inhabit coexist with love and compassion.

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Shattered. The broken pieces of a world torn apart by war and a planet devastated by greed and corruption lie scattered at our feet. In her new book, “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” poet and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams brings together the tattered fragments of our times into a literary mosaic of peace and reconciliation. From the charred ruins of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on 9/11, to endangered prairie dogs of Utah, to the creation of a memorial to the 10s of thousands who died in the Rwandan genocide, Williams constructs an image of hope for a brighter future, a journey toward a time when human beings and the world they inhabit coexist with love and compassion.