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  1. Rick Bass _ The Sky, the Stars, the

    I think that this almost made up to Chubb for the time about the nighthawk, and I think it was good for grandfather, too, that it reminded him to never forget again that the heart of it all is mystery, and that science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery-a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.
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  2. Rick Bass _ The Sky, the Stars, the

    Ceremony. When we've lost that, we've lost everything, and are only wandering in the dark, like chickens or lambs waiting for eagles.
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  3. Rick Bass _ The Sky, the Stars, the

    Sometimes I imagine I can feel the earth pause in its rotation, can feel it pause and look at us as if wondering, Just who the hell do you think you are?
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  4. Rick Bass _ The Sky, the Stars, the

    The thing about nature is that each species does what it's best at. That's why it's all so locked together. I'm certain that at its center is some kind of peace or unity or harmony - the white light people speak of having when they come back from "the dead." And what does our species do best? We construct artificial systems wherein we are mighty predators, or mighty thinkers, or sagacious, benevolent rulers of the universe - allies with God even.
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  5. Rick Bass _ The Sky, the Stars, the

    Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?
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  6. Rick Bass _ The Sky, the Stars, the

    We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between man and nature, and complicity versus innocence. But the truth is, there is no complicity, there is no innocence; and there is no death, there is only life.
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  7. Rick Bass _ The Sky, the Stars, the

    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.
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  8. Rick Bass _ The Sky, the Stars, the

    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 mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.
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