Whale Song
Secrets beneath the shimmering blue
Rick Bass
Rick Bass is the author of 25 books of fiction and nonfiction. He lives with his family in Yaak and Missoula, Montana. His new book, Nashville Chrome, is a novel about music and the destructiveness of fame.
Years of Salmon
The ghost fish of Montana
The Burning Present
Our toxic desire for the natural world
If the Dalai Lama Were a Fisherman
I was in Hawaii, working on a story about whales—a big story, about big animals and the people who are drawn to them, a story that’s going to take months to write—and while out on the…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Animal Realm
Totem Animals
The fantastic creatures of reality
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | This Life
Animal Realm
The first pet I ever had of my own was a fledgling mockingbird I named Brighty. I found him while I was staying at my grandmother’s in Texas one spring. I rescued him from the dive…
MeditationMagazine | In My Life
Wild Berries
Taste the moment.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Winter
Rick Bass discovers the redemptive power of a frozen landscape.
Bonfire
Rick Bass reflects on a life devoted to wilderness, and to environmental activism, and discovers that the one needn't exclude the other.
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