What else is the function of a forest, first and foremost, if not a place to do this: to capture and filter water, and merge with sunlight, to create intricate being, intricate matter?
Rick Bass, "The Larch"
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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 Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana, Rick Bass
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We live in one of those places I did not build a road into. A place of wildness and mystery.
—Rick Bass, “Two Deer”, The Hermit’s Story
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The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana, Rick Bass
[ Text ID: 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 ]
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"And then the kicker is this: in passing from the real to the imagined, in following that trail, you learn that both sides have a little of the other in each, that there are elements of the imagined inside your experience of the 'real' world - rock, bone, wood, ice - and elements of the real - not the metaphorical, but the actual thing itself - inside stories and tales and dreams."
- Rick Bass
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When the last bite was eaten, and the last of the dishes cleared and washed, and the candles snuffed out—what I awakened to was not so much a different world with different sensibilities, but instead the same old world in a different season.
The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass
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RETO LECTOR 2024 - LIBRO 4
27 de Enero 2024 - Libro 4 del reto Lector 2024. "Invierno" de Rick Bass es una novela brillante y necesaria. Con una trama inspiradora y única,totalmente recomendable!
En el valle del Yaak, en Montana, viven apenas treinta personas y un número indeterminado de osos, lobos, coyotes, pumas, alces… Un lugar sin duda salvaje y remoto. De hecho, allí la mayoría de las casas carecen de electricidad o teléfono. Para sus habitantes, sin embargo, eso no parece ser un problema. Son leñadores, tramperos, guías de caza, domadores de caballos, tejedores de atrapasueños,…
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this short story is so insanely good. I think you could only create this perfect mesh of symbols and humanity in the short story format tbh
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Pink Floyd, 1969 🎧
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She wanders down into the forest to commune with the spirits. Her dress is damp against her. They cannot see the blue elk, nor can she; it scents her coming and moves away from her, farther into the woods. She can feel the heat of its presence, where it was, and in the woods, following this heat, she trails it, squinting and trying to remember…
—Rick Bass, “The Distance”, The Hermit’s Story
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the classic chris and rick photo 🙏
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Yuck 🤮
This is a perfect example of white feminism™ that supports an anti-abortion white male candidate over a pro-choice Black woman, while still espousing pro-choice rhetoric
You cannot be a progressive by voting for and empowering extremists
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