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I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. - Margaret Thatcher
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FENCELINES
To many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.
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IN THESE HILLS
“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.” ― Joyce Rachelle
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BATTLE HARDENED
“People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains and then the people of the West started blasting away at them. Buffalo are just cows with big heads. If you've ever looked a cow in the face and seen the unutterable depths of trust and stupidity that lie within, you will be able to guess how difficult it must have been for people in the West to track down buffalo and shoot them to pieces. By 1895, there were only 800 buffalo left, mostly in zoos and touring Wild West shows. With no buffalo left to kill, Westerners started shooting Indians. Between 1850 and 1890 they reduced the number of Indians in America from two million to 90,000.

Nowadays, thank goodness, both have made a recovery. Today there are 30,000 buffalo and 300,000 Indiands, and of course you are not allowed to shoot either, so all the Westerners have left to shoot at are road signs and each other, both of which they do rather a lot. There you have a capsule history of the West.” ― Bill Bryson
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POETRY IN MOTION
“Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.” ― Suzy Kassem
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PRECOCIOUS FOALS
“The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and fire.” - Shannon Ralls Lemon
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ALONG THE OLD RANCH LANE
Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I'll bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road.
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SEVEN CRANES
I've been asked numerous times... 'is this a mutiple exposure of one Sandhill Crane?' I assure you it's not.
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RED FOX
“What a hungry fox constantly dreams of is a chicken!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
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SOMEWHERE IN UTAH'S WEST DESERT
It's when I'm alone in these lonely places that I find myself.
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MR. GRIZZ
I watched him go over a hill. After waiting a few minutes I thought to myself... well, I guess I'll go over the hill too. On the other side I saw him lumber off in another direction. But, for some reason he circled a clump of aspens and headed back in my direction on the narrow wildlife path on which I was perched. He didn't see me, well not at first. He just kept lumbering toward me. When about thirty yards away, he raised his head and noticed I was there. It didn't stop him. He simply left the path to go around me on my right side. I captured this image as he strolled on past. It was my dose of caffeine for the day.
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PONDERING HIS NEW WORLD
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. - Jim Carrey
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CROSSING THE SNAKE RIVER
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. - Art Buchwald
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LOOKING INTO THE STARE OF A BEAR
I lost my Teddy Bear. Can I sleep with you?
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TEAM WORK
Life isn't always rodeos, cowboys, and horses... but it should be.
INTO THE STORM'S EYE
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao Tzu
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CHILLED AUTUMN MORNING NEAR MADISON JUNCTION
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. - George Eliot
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There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light.
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PROWLER
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. - Hamlin Garland
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WALKING THE RIDGELINE
"We cannot dwell side by side. Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that away from us. My brothers, shall we submit or shall we say to them: 'First kill me before you take possession of my land” ― Sitting Bull
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The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself. - Hope Davis
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If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord. - Nathan Phillips
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CINNAMON AND HONEY - Cinnamon colored Black Bear and the golden-honey color of autumn
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GOOSE CONVENTION
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TIME IS FLYING... NEVER TO RETURN - Sandhill Crane
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CHANGING DIRECTIONS - Snow Geese
I could have gone on flying through space forever. - Yuri Gagarin (early Russian Cosmonaut)
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In baseball this would be called the seventh inning stretch
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy. - Michael Biehn
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THE COLORS OF NEW MEXICO
“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me for ever. Curious as it may sound, it was New Mexico that liberated me from the present era of civilization, the great era of material and mechanical development". - D. H. Lawrence (English artist, novelist, poet)
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AS IF HUNG IN SPACE
I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging. - George W. Bush
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PEEKABOO
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. - Annie Leibovitz
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WORSHIPING THE MOON
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. - Allen Ginsberg
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ANTELOPE ISLAND - GREAT SALT LAKE
A magical place to watch weather systems arriving and departing in all directions.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. - Will Rogers
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THE NORTH END - Great Salt Lake, Utah
The ever-fluctuating Great Salt Lake has frustrated attempts to develop its shoreline. As a result much of the lake is ringed by extensive wetlands making Great Salt Lake one of the most important resources for migrating and nesting birds.
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In strobe-light fashion Red-winged Blackbirds fill the scene with their brilliance.
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RING-NECKED PHEASANT
Why fit in when you were born to stand out.
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FOUR MULE DEER
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. - W. S. Gilbert
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GREAT BLUE HERON
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali
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UTAH JUNIPER
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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FOR ALL TO SEE
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? - Frida Kahlo
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SPRING BULL IN VELVET
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. - Henry David Thoreau
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SHEDDING THE WINTER COAT
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged. - Standing Bear, Oglala Lakota
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“Bears find themselves at the spot where two deep-seated but contradictory human impulses collide: the desire to feel protected from unforeseeable danger and the longing for unspoiled nature.” ― Bernd Brunner, Bears: A Brief History
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RAPID FLOW IN THE GORGE
Water is the driving force of all nature. - Leonardo da Vinci
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"The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy." - Uvavnuk
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AFTER THE TENDER SHOOTS
Eat plenty of greens.
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THIS PASTURE IS MY HOME
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg. - Jack Klugman
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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali
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