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Ranching Quotes

“Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear.”

Girl Courage Adventure Horse Horses Horse Riding Horseback Riding Ranching Cowgirl

Author:J.H. Lee

“I know a rancher like you down below Hell's Canyon. He runs about six cows and five thousand sheep. But he calls himself a cattleman.”

Cowboy Ranching

Author:Loren C. Estleman

“He was given a ranch, and two lovely mistresses. 'Imagine, at thirty, I was put out to stud. And we Latins are such drowsy pigs that I almost fell for it.”

Mexico Latino Central America Ranching

Book:The Goblins of Eros

Source: The Goblins of Eros

“Farmers and ranchers make up just 1 percent of the U.S. population but manage two-thirds of the nation's land; agriculture has greater impacts on water, land and terrestrial biodiversity than any other human enterprise....Half of Earth's ice-free land is in pasture or farms. Crops now cover an area the size of South America and livestock graze an expanse as big as Africa; together they use 70 percent of all fresh water. Fishermen have an equally enormous impact, harvesting 90 million metric tons of fish annually-equivalent, as author Paul Greenberg calculates, to pulling the human weight of China out of the sea every year.”

Fishing Sustainability Agriculture Conservation Farming Land Use Environmental Impact Ranching

Book:Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland

Source: Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland

“Whatever the reason for their choices, too many country men saw the best years of their lives melt with the ice cubes in the bottom of an empty whiskey glass.”

Life Quotes Cowboys Westerns Ranching Ranch Life

Author:Mark E. Miller

“Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.”

Helping Numbers Economy Growing Industry Mediums Riding Diverse Agriculture Manufacturing Tourism Mining Logging Growing Economy Ranching

Author:Stockwell Day

“New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.”

I Can Hard Home Difficult Acting Successful Hard Work Rivers Fishes Being Successful Working It Mexico Hunts Canyons New Mexico Difficult Work Ranching

Author:Val Kilmer

“Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.”

“Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated ranching town, eighty desolate miles from the nearest city, and back when there was much less cultural homogenisation by way of TV.”

Way Age Cities Tvs Towns Miles Isolated Naive Eighty Back When Immature Desolate Ranching

Author:Susan Schneider

“The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.”

Writing Littles Book Earth Form Born Animal Tradition Following Herds Paragraph Cattle Book Writing Bookshops Clusters Nomadic Ranching

Author:Larry McMurtry