Top 100 Quotes About Elk
#1. I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
Anita Loos
#2. To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.
Michelle Paver
#3. I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.
Gerald R. Ford
#4. Anybody who's having fun at an Elk Lodge meeting has the fun thing figured out.
P. J. O'Rourke
#5. I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.
Lawrence Block
#6. And what happens doesn't happen in words. I want to smother all the French beaches I'll never see. Imagine stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around Rockefeller Center.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. When I returned, she held out her hand to show me an elk vertebra as white as ivory. She said: "There are so many bones here. You just don't see them until you sit still.
Bryce Andrews
#8. They watched the elk gallop and mull about like a new texture being laid, and their presence against the mountains in that high sweet grass was a trellis alive and for a moment it seemed as if the world was reinventing itself and the boy was filled with an inexplicable hope.
Robert Gatewood
#9. Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!'
'A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?
Sara Zarr
#11. Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men.
Virginia Woolf
#12. To be is to belong to all that is to receive...worth ... White Elk
Rosie Trakostanec
#13. His hands were cold as ice, but he saved us from the dead men, him and his ravens, and he brought us here on his elk." "His elk?" said Bran, wonderstruck. "His elk?" said Meera, startled. "His ravens?" said Jojen. "Hodor?" said Hodor.
Anonymous
#14. My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
Chris Pratt
#15. The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.
David Quammen
#16. Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.
Dave Barry
#17. If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
Peter Benchley
#18. The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark ...
Bob Hope
#19. One observer estimated that in 1901 Texas alone had eight hundred million prairie dogs.4 Jack rabbits were nearly as numerous. Antelope and deer numbered in the millions, as did the wolves and coyotes, and there were thousands of elk, bear, and other game.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#20. When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
Chief Joseph
#21. In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Richard Price
#22. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.
Rita Dove
#23. I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.
Kelli O'Hara
#24. The elks live up in the hills and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come down to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find that it's only a water hole. What they're looking for is elk-ohole.
Morrie Ryskind
#26. Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage.
Linda Fairstein
#27. Who's elk horn do I have to blow in order to get something to eat around here?
Roseanne Barr
#28. those losses were the result of wild game, such as elk herds eating haystacks meant
C.J. Box
#29. You greasy shit stain on a diseased elk's warty asshole.
Ian Tregillis
#30. Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.
Peter Jackson
#31. The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
Meriwether Lewis
#32. They laugh at this, the idea that one might keep herds of friendly deer or elk that walk happily to their slaughter whenever it's time for the human to eat meat. Some ask openly if there aren't consequences of a life so easy to live.
Joseph Boyden
#34. I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.
George Strait
#35. A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
Edward Abbey
#36. In the distance an elk bull bellowed, the strange screaming noise a signal to a cow as strong as the urine that covered its belly.
John Campea
#37. I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticides. So I turned to bear, caribou, venison, hippopotamus, buffalo, elk and moose. Taste-wise, buffalo and elk are tied for first. Not gamy, and loaded with protein. And very expensive, I might add.
Billy Casper
#38. If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
Langston Hughes
#39. It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.
Edward Abbey
#40. After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
Black Elk
#41. They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk
#42. All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
Black Elk
#43. The Great Spirit is everywhere; he hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
Black Elk
#44. While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw;
For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being....And I saw that it was holy
Black Elk
#45. The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
Black Elk
#47. A good nation I will make live.
Black Elk
#48. Rick gave a mischievous grin.
"We're going to add a few things to that bucket list of yours, Amelia. You're going to have a snowball fight, make a snow angel, and go sleigh riding.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#49. A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
Black Elk
#50. Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Black Elk
#51. As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
Black Elk
#52. And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk
#53. To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
Black Elk
#54. The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
Black Elk
#55. I knew that the real was yonder and that the darkened dream of it was here.
Black Elk
#56. There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk
#57. I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
Black Elk
#58. Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
Black Elk
#59. It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.
Black Elk
#60. And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black Elk
#61. My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
Black Elk
#62. Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.
Black Elk
#63. I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
Black Elk
#65. It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.
Black Elk
#66. But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk
#67. Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.
Black Elk
#68. Behold this day. It is yours to make.
Black Elk
#69. May you always walk in Beauty.
Black Elk
#70. Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
#71. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours ...
Black Elk
#72. I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
Black Elk
#73. All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
Black Elk
#74. So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
Black Elk
#75. And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk
#76. But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given to a man too weak to use it; of a holy tree that should have flourished in a people's heart with flowers and singing birds, and now is withered; and of a people's dream that died in bloody snow.
Black Elk
#77. When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
Black Elk
#78. I cured with the power that came through me.
Black Elk
#79. Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.
Black Elk
#80. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
Black Elk
#81. It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
Black Elk
#82. I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Black Elk
#83. You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Black Elk
#84. The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
Black Elk
#85. Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
Black Elk
#86. I stood upon the highest mountain of the world and I knew more than I saw, I understood more than I knew, because I was seeing in a sacred manner. And what I saw were the hoops of all the nations interlocking in on great circle.
Black Elk
#87. Maybe you should take some lessons from the forest crooner,' he suggests.
Leslea Wahl
#88. Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
Black Elk
#89. When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.
Black Elk
#90. It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.
Black Elk
#91. there can be no power in a square
Black Elk
#92. Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
Black Elk
#93. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
Black Elk
#94. I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.
Black Elk
#95. Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
Black Elk
#96. The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
Black Elk
#97. Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
Black Elk
#98. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
Black Elk
#99. It is easier to trick with charm than with aggression.
Nick Lake
#100. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black Elk
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