Rick Bass Quotes

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Nature is where I feel most comfortable; it's where I find my balance. I would like my kids and all future generations to have the chance to experience nature as I did.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.