“The domestic horse world needs to usher in a new order of horsemanship, based upon the paradigm of the natural horse and rider.”

“Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“The natural hoof, like natural locomotion, is what nature has intended for the hooves of the modern horse. The natural shaped hoof found among wild horses in the outback is nothing less than a structural masterpiece; it has no rivals among domesticated horses anywhere.”

Jaime Jackson (1947) Horse hoof care professional

“495. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“A good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher

“It is best to let the horse go his way, and pretend it is yours. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.”

Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864) English writer

“Little black horse.
Where are you taking your dead rider?”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.”

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter