Praise for The Glorians : "Mary Oliver gave us instructions for living a life: ''Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.'' Terry Tempest Williams understood the assignment. In her latest, Williams lifts up the ''Glorians,'' a word that came to her in a dream in March 2020 . Ravens, the glow of apricots, a cup of tea, friendship; all of these are Glorians, the ''holy ordinary,'' doorways from the natural world that offer us connection with something sacred and profound. Williams''s work, too, is such a doorway, and it is always a pleasure to walk through."-- Book Riot "This revelatory mix of nature writing and memoir from conservationist Williams reflects on encounters, which she calls ''Glorians,'' that reveal the interconnectedness of the natural world .
Evocative and richly personal, Williams''s writing seamlessly weaves together meditations on mortality, nature, and the modern world. Readers will be inspired."-- Publishers Weekly "In chapters that range from brief meditations to longer narratives, Williams bears witness ''to beauty and brokenness, love and grief.'' Marriage, friendship, dreams, ravaging fires, her aging father, the pandemic, all feature in deeply felt pieces . An impassioned defense of interconnectedness."-- Kirkus Reviews "With The Glorians , Terry Tempest Williams has secured her place as one of our greatest living eco-visionaries. This book is the culmination and crescendo of the devotional work of a lifetime--deeply wise, poetic, necessary, brave, transporting, and transcendent."-- V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of Reckoning and The Vagina Monologues "Williams is Whitmanesque in her vision: generous, visionary, multitudinous.
This is a wise, tender, and often very funny book that asks us to achieve new ways of seeing. A glorian is a revelation made flesh and rock and fire and desire. Give me a Terry Tempest Williams world any day: it lights up the very edges of the dark."-- Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin "Feeling her way along the edges of the world''s sorrows, Terry Tempest Williams touches the glory of the earth and its creatures and the grandeur of our capacity to grieve, resist and create. A book that invites dreaming about new ways of living. A vision for a future with hope."-- Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Emerita, Harvard Divinity School Praise for Erosion : "If Williams''s haunting, powerful and brave book can be summed up in one line of advice it would be this: try to stare down the grief of everyday life, speak out and find solace in the boundless beauty of nature."-- New York Times Book Review "If you''re reading Terry Tempest Williams for the first time, you are meeting an impassioned conservationist who can take her place in the environmental pantheon alongside Rachel Carson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Rebecca Solnit .
A talented writer who fuses soul to scholarship."-- Washington Independent Review of Books Praise for The Hour of Land : " The Hour of Land is one of the best nature books I''ve read in years, filled with seductive prose . It''s impossible to do Williams''s thought-provoking insights and evocative images justice in a short review. My only advice is to read the book. And then read it again, with pen in hand. And then visit a national park, because as Williams reminds us, they are ''portals and thresholds of wonder,'' the ''breathing spaces for a society that increasingly holds its breath.''"-- New York Times Book Review "Whether contemplating the spiritual life she finds ''inside the heart of the wild'' or marveling at the peaks and monuments that comprise ''our best idea'' - the National Parks system - Williams movingly urges us to remember that ''heaven is here.''" O Magazine Praise for When Women Were Birds : "Williams displays a Whitmanesque embrace of the world and its contradictions .
As the pages accumulate, her voice grows in majesty and power until it become a full-fledged aria."-- San Francisco Chronicle "This poetic memoir continues the work Williams began in Refuge . Williams explores her mother''s identity - woman, wife, mother, and Mormon - as she continues to honor her memory . A lyrical and elliptical meditation on women, nature, family, and history."-- Boston Globe Praise for Refuge : "There has never been a book like Refuge , an entirely original yet tragically common story, brought exquisitely to life."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Moving and loving . both a natural history of an ecological phenomenon [and] a Mormon family saga . A heroic book.
"-- The Washington Post Book World.