Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which myster… - Rick Bass
The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which myster…
- Rick Bass
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. - Rick Bass
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears. - Rick Bass
The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.
It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West – but it is mine, and I am asking un… - Rick Bass
It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West – but it is mine, and I am asking un…
If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your … - Rick Bass
If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your …
I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply th… - Rick Bass
I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply th…
Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little plac… - Rick Bass
Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little plac…
How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden. - Rick Bass
How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a fo… - Rick Bass
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a fo…
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