--- title: "1 Shaping Future Quotes By Rick Bass" description: "1 Shaping Future quotes by Rick Bass. Plus more from Rick Bass and more Shaping Future sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1a/rick-bass-14544_believe_the-future-s-so-random-and-so-mobile-the_1898934.png" --- > [The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. I really believe you have to let people know, to use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-bass/the-future-s-so-random-and-so-mobile-there-s-no-way-you-re-going-to/) [Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-bass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1a/rick-bass-14544_believe_the-future-s-so-random-and-so-mobile-the_1898934.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/shaping-future/rick-bass/#itemlist", "name": "1 Shaping Future Quotes By Rick Bass", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. 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