Best Bison Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Grasshopper Jungle

“The fate of our national mammal is decided by ranchers who act as self-appointed representatives of the American people.”

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Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

“... anyway, the traders didn't want them as much. Just winter-coat buffalo robes, as many as we could bring in, so that we had to imagine all the napikwans in their big camps huddled in the buffalo robes, making it look like the buffalo never went away, they just stayed in place, let the buildings and roads come up around them until they forgot they were grass eaters, started standing in line at banks and mailing letters.”

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Book:The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Source: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.”

Real Beautiful Beauty Sensual Landscape Refuge Rudeness Real Ones Bison

Author:Fernando Botero

“Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.”

People Men Needs Spiritual Expression Wall Eras Caves Rudeness Prehistoric Bison Prehistoric Man

Author:Fernando Botero

“From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.”

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Author:Daniel Quinn

“If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.”

Ifs Lasts Lines Montana Best Place Bison

Author:Jim Bailey

“Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?”

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Author:Arlo Guthrie

“If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.”

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Author:Johan Huizinga

“What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.”

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Author:Jenna McCarthy

“In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't really mean. It's OK.' 'I'll kill you both.' 'Hurtful things said in the heat of the moment. We're not going to hold it against you, Bison. We're all friends here.' Valkyrie nodded. 'We love you Bison.' 'We do,' Skulduggery agreed. 'You're our favourite Necromancer. You're the cuddly one.' 'Shut up,' Dragonclaw said. 'Both of you just shut up.”

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Author:Derek Landy

“I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut your face.' 'Exactly my point.”

Would Be Faces Fighting Doubt Battle Fairs Wit Your Face Bison Battle Of Wits

Author:Derek Landy

“Americans are good at herding Bison. The end.”

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Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.”

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Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.”

People Men Needs Art Real Beautiful Spiritual Literature Painting Expression Wall Perfection Sensual Eras Landscape Materialism Refuge Caves Rudeness Oasis Real Ones Prehistoric Bison

Author:Fernando Botero

“Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.”

Men Needs Art Literature Painting Perfection Materialism Rudeness Oasis Bison

Author:Fernando Botero

“To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.”

People Use Vision Bison

Author:Black Elk