"The natural world is the only one we……" — 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 form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures."
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24 Quotes by Rick Bass
Rick Bass has 24 quotes on this site.
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Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they…
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Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner…
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Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.
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Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where…
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I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell…
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The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you…
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The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.
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Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and…
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A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
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Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July,…
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To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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