The Glorians

Praise for The Glorians:

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times Book Review, Literary Hub, and Book Riot

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

“Beauty is all around us, or so the clichéeacute; goes. Williams, the environmental activist and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence, takes it a step further in these reflections on aging, relationships and more: Each ordinary little beauty is connected to each other, and to us.”-New York Times Book Review, “The Nonfiction Everyone Will be Talking About in 2026”

”‘The unsung moments that inspire our actions and beliefs arise often without words–a central drive to being human is to translate those experiences into shared stories that delight, disturb, and heighten our senses.’ Here we see the process in which Williams engages throughout this idiosyncratic and deeply moving work.“–David L. Ulin, Alta Journal

“There’s nobody I trust more than Terry Tempest Williams to be able to braid the ordinary with the holy, the divine with the mundane. She’s someone who I’ve always been able to look to, in the need of regaining a faith in the world, a trust in it … Williams points to small moments, and poignant visions, as the representations of our hope, our resilience, our bright and gleaming futures. I know I need that now, more than ever.”–Literary Hub, “Most Anticipated Books of 2026”

“A frank, passionate, knowledgeable, observant, and entrancing writer of conscience … After telling poignant and funny stories, lamenting injustice and environmental destruction, and contemplating stars, storms, flash floods, plants, stones, spiders, monarchs, time, love, and resistance, Williams assures us in this exquisite, deeply affecting, spirit-renewing inquiry that ‘we can dream a new world into being.’”–Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred)

“In our current time of political turmoil, Terry Tempest Williams introduces us to the Glorians. She describes them as ‘ordinary, often overlooked presences–animal, plant, memory, moment–that reveal our shared vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world.’ This book is truly a masterclass in finding beauty and joy in the unexpected.”–Book Riot

“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

“In The Glorians, Terry Tempest Williams takes snapshots of the natural and human-made world, exposing time and again the miraculous elements of the mundane … The book is both a testament to and a model of bearing witness … A guide for how to live in today’s tumultuous times.”–BookPage

“An often-poetic invitation to softness and stillness in troubled times, this nature book is for readers seeking inspiration to reflect and take action.”–Library Journal

“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 Weekl

Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of over twenty books of creative nonfiction, including the environmental classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Among her other books are Leap; Red; The Open Space of Democracy; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; When Women Were Birds; The Hour of Land; and Erosion: Essays of Undoing. Her work has been translated and anthologized worldwide. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Southeastern Utah.