Lakes Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

“We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.”

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Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

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Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

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