Pearls of Great Wisdom

"I've often compared having a horse with keeping a deer. Would you expect much cooperation if you saddled up a large buck? As another prey animal, a deer is very close to having the nature of a horse, yet humans expect and accept timidity and wildness in deer while expecting 'courage' and cooperation in a horse. Why? Because horses are big, strong wizards at adjusting, and they honestly try to do as we ask."
Author Rebekah Ferran Witter in 'Living with Horse Power: Personally Empowering Life Lessons Learned from the Horse'

"A lot of people get along pretty well with their horses until they go to training those horses"
Tom Dorrance in 'True Unity: Willing Communication Between Horse and human'