Fallenrose
Well-Known Member
Just read this and thought I would share (apologies if been shared before)...
You cannot remain unmoved by the gentleness and conformation of well-bred and well-trained horse more than a thousand pounds of big-boned, well-muscled animal, slick of coat and sweet of smell, obedient and mannerly, and yet forever a menace with its innocent power and ineradicable inclination to seek refuge in flight, and always a burden with its need to be fed, wormed and shod, and its liability to cuts and infections, to laming and heaves. But when it greets you with a nicker, nuzzles your chest, and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where you want to be and what you want to do has been answered.
Albert Borgmann, Crossing the Postmodern Divide, 1992
Sums up how I feel!
You cannot remain unmoved by the gentleness and conformation of well-bred and well-trained horse more than a thousand pounds of big-boned, well-muscled animal, slick of coat and sweet of smell, obedient and mannerly, and yet forever a menace with its innocent power and ineradicable inclination to seek refuge in flight, and always a burden with its need to be fed, wormed and shod, and its liability to cuts and infections, to laming and heaves. But when it greets you with a nicker, nuzzles your chest, and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where you want to be and what you want to do has been answered.
Albert Borgmann, Crossing the Postmodern Divide, 1992
Sums up how I feel!