“I realized that horses don’t lie. They’ll show you who they are if you give them the respect they deserve. That honesty struck me in a way I’d never experienced.”
– Robert Redford
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace”.
– Ovid
“A horse doesn’t care how much you know until he knows how much you care. Put your hand on your horse and your heart in your hand”.
– Pat Parelli
“A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor”.
– Xenophon
“I call horses ‘divine mirrors’ – they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that”.
– Allan J. Hamilton
“What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! / I could manage this horse better than others do.”
– Alexander the Great about his horse Bucephalus
“The horse has the peculiarity of being associated with each of the three constituent elements – air, water and fire – and the stars – sun and moon -, appearing as their avatar or friend.”
– Gilbert Durand
“A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence”.
– Pam Brown
“We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The deer, the horse, the great eagle—these are our brothers.”
– Chief Seattle
“When I bestride him, I soar. I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical that the pipe of Hermes.”
– William Shakespeare
