Able Quote by William Henry Ashley

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely…

— Nelson A. Miles

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than…

— John Muir

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa.…

— Chief Joseph

The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but…

— Franz Kafka

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Single trees are extraordinary; trees in number more extraordinary still. To walk in a wood is to find fault with Socrates's declaration that 'Trees…

— Robert Macfarlane

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Horses have made civilization possible.

— Diane Ackerman

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it…

— Henry David Thoreau

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

— Robert Bly

Remember, for 5,000 years people probably rode those horses. They probably felt that horses were a permanent part of civilization. Everybody has had this moment.

— Ken Moelis

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness…

— Carl Sagan