Terry Tempest Williams In-class Question 1

I think geography plays an extremely important role in the life of Williams. She still lives in the city and writes about the landscape she passes while driving. She talks about a spot where she is reminded of something in school where she was doing an experiment and suddenly starts remembering a rattlesnake at the next spot. She is constantly reminded of her life through what she sees in the land surrounding her.

Which reminds me of my hometown. I do not put the places I pass in my hometown in to such detail, but I am always reminded of things I have experienced in my life when I go through it. Like you said in class, I feel like Williams is trying to just gather up everything she loves in the land and then throws it all aside by knowing that there was something destroying it and the people she knew.