How do you find the motivation for change?
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About the video: ‘How do you find the motivation for change?’
Speaking to a small audience at the 2004 Bioneers Conference in California, Tempest Williams talks about what fundamentally motivates her as an activist. In response to a question about patience, she speaks about endurance and the need to keep active in the defence of nature. She describes her recent visit to the Artic National Wildlife Refuge with husband Brooke Williams and closes with an inspiring passage from one of her poems.
Total views: 1,759
Filmed: San Raphael, USA on 17 October 2004
Credits: Interviewer - Nick Hart-Williams Camera - Cody Harrington Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2004 Nick Hart-Williams
About Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams is an author, naturalist, and environmental activist. Hailed a “visionary” by the Utne Reader, she is a passionate advocate for the preservation of the American Western wilderness.
She’s author of several books including “The Open Space of Democracy”(2004) and ” Finding Beauty in a Broken World” (2008).
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