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mattstebbins's review against another edition
5.0
Bass has such a gift - for place, for people, for breaking my heart.
[5 stars for prophesies of a dying world that will never stop being less apt.]
[5 stars for prophesies of a dying world that will never stop being less apt.]
kerrianne's review against another edition
5.0
Once again Rick Bass' words read like prophecy, like necessity. “It is one thing to defend a place from afar, and in the abstract, and quite another to defend it every hour of every day, with every breath: to stand always at the brink, at the edge-of-vanishing. To be wedded so completely to place that, when it is destroyed, one's self is lost. Such connections rarely exist in this nation any more; such connections are, I fear, increasingly hard to even imagine or understand.”
That's Bass writing in advocacy for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2004, in direct response to the (greedy, oil-hungry) Bush Administration seeking to drill oil there. When I read it this morning it struck me Bass could just as easily be writing about Standing Rock, today.
[Five stars for being another shining example of why Rick Bass should be required reading in every American home.]
That's Bass writing in advocacy for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2004, in direct response to the (greedy, oil-hungry) Bush Administration seeking to drill oil there. When I read it this morning it struck me Bass could just as easily be writing about Standing Rock, today.
[Five stars for being another shining example of why Rick Bass should be required reading in every American home.]
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