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Great Salt Lake-Inspired Words, Music Shared by Visiting Group from Harvard

March 18, 2024

The Fielding Garr Ranch at Antelope Island State Park in Utah served as the venue for a “gratitude concert,” during which lake-inspired poetry, song and music was performed. The event was organized by Terry Tempest Williams, a conservationist, educator and writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School, or HDS. Having studied the Great Salt Lake for one year, Williams and a group of 15 HDS students have made a pilgrimage to its shores as a culminating moment.

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Turning Climate Crisis Stories into Narrative of the Future, Changed but Still Beautiful

April 17, 2023
“We don’t know how to get there, but we know to take the next step and the next step,”  writer and activist Rebecca Solnit said during HDS's Climate Justice Week, quoting E.L. Doctorow’s description of writing as an apt analogy: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
Terry Tempest Williams outdoors with mountains in the background

Something Deeper than Hope

November 3, 2022

"Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought." Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice... Read more about Something Deeper than Hope

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Way Forward on Climate Change

April 22, 2022
“I don’t see grief as the opposite of hope,” said Terry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and environmental author and advocate, referring to the sense of loss shared by some over the damage already done. “But if we acknowledge the world is dying then we can move past the depression and do something.”
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Chance of Sun in Michael Pollan’s Climate Forecast

November 3, 2021
“Nothing is inevitable; everything’s evitable; and that’s really important. That’s one of the reasons we study history, and we see that very specific decisions resulted in specific outcomes. It didn’t just happen. We’re very fatalistic. People assume things are the way they have to be and they’re not,” Harvard Professor Michael Pollan told Terry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence at HDS, during an online conversation Monday, “The Climate of Consciousness.”