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And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be brought home with a hoof print on my stomach.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.