Horse — Tyler Thompson, LMFT, LPCC

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That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the grass and the wildflowers out of the ground and the flowers ran all blue and yellow far as the eye could see and in the dream he was among the horses running and in the dream he himself could run with the horses and they coursed the young mares and fillies over the plain where their rich bay and their rich chestnut colors shone in the sun and the young colts ran with their dams and trampled down the flowers in a haze of pollen that hung in the sun like powdered gold and they ran he and the horses out along the high mesas where the ground resounded under their running hooves and they flowed and changed and ran and their manes and tails blew off of them like spume and there was nothing else at all in that high world and they moved all of them in a resonance that was like a music among them and they were none of them afraid neither horse nor colt nor mare and they ran in that resonance which is the world itself and which cannot be spoken but only praised.

—Cormac McCarthy

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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

—Herman Melville

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A horse doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

—Pat Parelli

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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

—W.C. Fields

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One can get in a car and see what man has made. One must get on a horse to see what God has made.

—Anonymous

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I’d rather ride on a mustang than in one.

—Bailey Ann Neal

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We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back.

—Peter Gray

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The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse.

—Anonymous

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Through his mane and tail
the high wind sings.

—William Shakespeare

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Horses lend us the wings we lack.

—Pam Brown

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For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins.