“The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of y...” — Mason Cooley Quote

“The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.”

“Never try to leap from a standstill.”

“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”

“When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I was at my sickest, I couldn't read or write. I could barely walk on my own or groom myself. The disease felled me physically and mentally - robbing me, briefly but intensely, of my wits, my sanity, my memory, my self.”

“From the time I was a kid, I was crazy about anything having to do with the West. I'd look at all of these photos of Montana, and they all seemed so magical and majestic. I just wanted to go west, and I finally did it when I was barely 21. I went off to volunteer at a Navajo reservation in New Mexico.”