Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.

Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."