Rick Bass

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March 07, 1958 in Fort Worth, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Outdoors & Nature

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Rick Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in Houston, the son of a geologist. He studied petroleum geology at Utah State University and while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi, began writing short stories on his lunch breaks. In 1987, he moved with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes Bass, to Montana’s remote Yaak Valley and became an active environmentalist, working to protect his adopted home from the destructive encroachment of roads and logging. He serves on the board of both the Yaak Valley Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies and continues to live with his family on a ranch in Montana, actively engaged in saving the American wilderness.

Bass received the PEN/Nelson Algren Award in 1988...more

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Books by Rick Bass

Average rating: 3.96 · 4,300 ratings · 542 reviews · 59 distinct works

	Winter: Notes from Montana by Rick Bass, Elizabeth Hughes (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness 4.12 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Ninemile Wolves 4.04 avg rating — 217 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Watch 4.19 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Hermit's Story: Stories 4.07 avg rating — 213 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Yaak 3.89 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had 3.85 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Lives of Rocks 3.95 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Colorado Wilderness 3.96 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	In the Loyal Mountains 4.17 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (god forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are.”
― Rick Bass

tags: 1987 , wild-to-the-heart

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“I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist. ”
― Rick Bass, Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had

tags: dogs , exist , family , friends

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“There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.”
― Rick Bass, The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness

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