Coyotes Quotes

• Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Nature, Fall, Cities

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• Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Dog, Night, Voice

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• The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Sadness, Men, Wolf Packs

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• Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, Men, Voice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1983). “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”, p.39, U of Nebraska Press

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• You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out

  Chuck Jones

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• If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Boys

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

  John Muir

  Stars, Animal, Cities

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• I'm in a Road Runner cartoon, Sinclair. And I'm the coyote.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Cartoon

  MaryJanice Davidson (2011). “Undead and Undermined: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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• We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Snakes, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Blessed, Fall, Sunset

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• Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Father, Boys

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

  Patricia Briggs

  Reflection, Reality, Epitome

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.159, Penguin

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• If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.

  Ted Nugent

  Shooting, Rooms, Faults

  "Ted Nugent: Don’t Dismiss Him. He’s Dangerous!" by Lawrence D. Elliott, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I could sneak up on a coyote if I've a mind to!

  Jack Elam

  Mind, Ifs, Sneak

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• Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

  Chuck Jones

  Fall, Too Much, Unbearable

  "Stroke of Genius, A Collection of Paintings and Musings on Life, Love and Art". Book by Chuck Jones, p. 78, 2007.

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• I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

  Patricia Briggs

  Son, Men, Laughing

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• Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hunts, Packs

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.

  Joel Gretsch

  Peter, Meetings

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• In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.

  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

  Art, Distance, Reality

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• Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pancakes, Cold, Moments

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• This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

  Richard Brautigan

  Country, Morning, Ocean

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

  Patricia Briggs

  Games, Play, Enemy

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• In this dream, I wasn’t a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote’s almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.

  Patricia Briggs

  Daughter, Dream, Trying

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• There is a drop of blood in the snow before me.... The coyote... is in estrus.... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.

  Craig Childs

  Spring, Winter, Blood

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• I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

  Ennio Morricone

  Animal, Sound, Ugly

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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