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“If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.”

Ifs Men Real Would Be Earth Faces Grows Half He Man Universal Horse If I Could Arkansas Alligators

Author:Davy Crockett

“It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.”

Should Different Earth Grows Tree Dog Strange Grew Rain Rivers Horse Branches Lakes Different Place Strange Things Mules Magnolias Oxen

Book:The Yearling

Source: The Yearling

“He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.”

Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

“whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!”

Source: Small world: an academic romance

“A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.”

Ifs Thinking Earth Together Can Do Numbers Race Consciousness Minutes Mountain Opposites Horse Twenties Disappear Settling Quarters Continents Initials Large Numbers Nuance Jockeys

Author:John McPhee

“Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'”

Knows Want Looks Doe I Can Earth Horse Critics Settling Soil Muscles Strings Restless Bass Living On Hinder Buzz Plowing Double Bass

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.”

Earth Offers Horse Hunger Flesh Innocent Grass Beast Sheep Slaughter Cattle Bloodshed Banquets Vegetarian Diet Thyme

Author:Pythagoras

“Get ready to move with Him as He manifests in the earth. The Lord says: "The sound you are hearing is that of horses' hooves. Heaven is mounting up. Rise up and look beyond. See into a place, a realm, that you have not fully seen.”

Looks Earth Moving Heaven Sound Lord Ready Horse Hearing Realms

Author:Chuck Pierce

“Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.”

Thinking Earth Proud Horse Receiving Printing

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“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 than the pipe of Hermes.”

Earth Air Horse Musical Soar Horns Pipe Hawks Hermes Horse Racing Equestrian Race Horses

Book:Henry V

Source: Henry V

“He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.”

May Earth Water Fire Air Pure Elements Horse Patient Heat Beast Colour Dull Stillness Riders Ginger Jade

Book:Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

“He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.”

Needs Feels Heart Long Hard Earth Felt Sides Tree Summer Roots Horse Filled Ships Evening Riding Floating Spine Oaks Deck Gale Oak Tree Amorous Tumbling Great Horse

Book:Orlando

Source: Orlando

“And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way.... ....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.”

Men Way Wells Heart Able Earth Fall Felt Taken Doubt Ten Horse Breaths Satisfaction Seconds Falling Off

Book:Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Number 4 in series

Source: Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Number 4 in series

“I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.”

Earth Fall Sound Silence Fire Color Late Horse Woods Smell Golden Breathing Steady Crisps

Book:The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls

Source: The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls

“Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.”

Want Said Earth House Voice Views Saws Sky Rocks Bird Hundred Horse What You Want Temples Gaps Jail Guests They Said Palaces Files Tanks Riders Carrion

Book:A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.”

Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

“You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder, "What can heaven offer any better then what I have here on earth?".”

Two Earth Heaven Understanding Wonder Offers Determination And Love Horse Partnership Marvelous Fuse Understanding And Love Equine Strength And Beauty

Author:Monica Dickens

“Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.”

Men Believe Heart Has Beens Two Hard Done Bigs Earth Together White My Friends Horse Shame Native Native American White Man Making Peace Together Again Lodges Two Hearts

Author:Black Kettle

“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.”

“We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.”

Earth Animal Blood Brother Flower All Things Horse Connected Animal Rights Perfume Eagles Deer

Author:Chief Seattle

“The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.”

Earth Feet Sweet Bird Horse Stealing Iron

Author:William Henry Ogilvie

“Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.”

Ifs Knows Men Mean Earth Three Heaven Feet Higher Horse Wide

Author:Rudolf G. Binding

“So with the stretch of the white road before me, Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun, Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows, Strong with the strength of my horse as we run. Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight! Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.”

Long Running Earth Joy Strong White Sun Fields Wind Shadow Horse Blue Shining Winter Snow Sunlight Crystals Vigorous

Book:A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

“And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the Gospel, they may be divided either into infidels, who deny the truth; or politicians who make religion a stalking horse for their ambition; or professors, who walk in the trammels of orthodoxy, and are more attentive to traditions and ordinances of men than to the oracles of truth.”

Ifs Men May Eye Earth Nations Walks Politician Pure Ambition Tradition Horse Casts Deny Divided Professors Orthodoxy Stalking Possessing Infidel Ordinances Oracles

Author:Samuel Adams

“Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.”

People Men Light Earth Nature Air Sea Rocks Shapes Horse Fantastic Banner

Author:Knut Hamsun

“The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.”

Firsts Bigs Earth Sports Animal Secret Fire Gun Ears Horse Athlete Nervous Starters Thoroughbreds Thoroughbred Horses

Author:Jesse Owens