Shine Up These Old Boots

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A million years before man they grazed the vast empty plains, living by voices only they could hear. They first came to know man as the hunted knows the hunter. Before he used horses for his labors, he killed them for meat. The alliance with man would forever be fragile. For the fear he struck deep into their hearts was too deep to be dislodged. Since that neolithic moment when a horse was first haltered, there were those among men who understood this. They could see into the creature’s soul and sooth the wounds they found there. The secrets uttered softly into troubled ears. These men were known as the Whisperers.

— Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

Have you ever heard anything so beautiful? This song alone makes me want to go to Montana. That and John Steinbeck’s description in Travels With Charley.

Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer

— Tom Booker

Robert Redford and Kristin Scott Thomas in The Horse Whisperer, 1998

Annie: Why did this happen? Tom: I don’t ask those questions, Annie. And I didn’t ask to love you, but I do.

I guess that’s all forever is…Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

“Seems so obvious now, doesn’t it? We weren’t right for each other. If only we knew then.”

The Horse Whisperer (2006) - Dir. Robert Redford

Pam Brown

Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana circa 1945