--- title: "1 Articulate Believe Quotes By Rick Bass" description: "1 Articulate Believe quotes by Rick Bass. Plus more from Rick Bass and more Articulate Believe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/rick-bass-14544_bald-eagle_in-a-way-that-i-haven-t-yet-figured-out_2438249.png" --- > [“In a way that I haven’t yet figured out how to fully articulate, I believe that children who get to see bald eagles, coyotes, deer, moose, grouse, and other similar sights each morning will have a certain kind of matrix…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/in-a-way-that-i-haven-t-yet-figured-out-how-to-fully-articulate-i/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/rick-bass-14544_bald-eagle_in-a-way-that-i-haven-t-yet-figured-out_2438249.png) ## More by Rick Bass > [“I'm surprised when I walk right into yet another abandoned hunters' camp. Tattered plastic sheeting still hangs askew here and there. Blackened aerosol cans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/i-m-surprised-when-i-walk-right-into-yet-another-abandoned-hunters/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/ive-lost-much-of-my-heart-and-the-spark-or-fire-that-once-created-or/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [“Sometimes I imagine I can feel the earth pause in its rotation, can feel it pause and look at us as if wondering, Just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/sometimes-i-imagine-i-can-feel-the-earth-pause-in-its-rotation-can/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/the-heart-of-it-all-is-mystery-and-science-is-at-best-only-the/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [“Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/is-this-how-it-is-for-a-species-that-senses-it-is-going-extinct-is/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/the-natural-world-is-the-only-one-we-have-to-try-to-not-see-the/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/live-long-enough-and-all-weaknesses-will-be-illuminated-but-again/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/when-you-sign-on-to-be-an-activist-in-northwest-montana-people-in-the/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [“We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between man and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/we-try-and-map-boundaries-and-to-string-fence-we-try-to-set-up-a/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/sometimes-i-perceive-that-there-is-a-stillness-and-a-wholeness-in-the/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [“You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/you-can-t-manufacture-love-you-can-t-build-it-back-up-like-a-fire-you/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/the-seams-the-laminae-between-the-various-worlds-the-past-present-and/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [“When the longhorns could be gathered up and driven, it was theorized that the heat from the herd's mass attracted lightning. (Such was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/when-the-longhorns-could-be-gathered-up-and-driven-it-was-theorized/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) > [Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/even-the-largest-of-my-dreams-and-ambitions-i-realize-with-increasing/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/how-we-fall-into-grace-you-can-t-work-or-earn-your-way-into-it-you/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/articulate-believe/rick-bass/#itemlist", "name": "1 Articulate Believe Quotes By Rick Bass", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In a way that I haven’t yet figured out how to fully articulate, I believe that children who get to see bald eagles, coyotes, deer, moose, grouse, and other similar sights each morning will have a certain kind of matrix or fabric or foundation of childhood, the nature and quality of which will be increasing rare and valuable as time goes on, and which will be cherished into adulthood, as well as becoming- and this is a leap of faith by me- a source of strength and knowledge to them somehow. 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