Horse, California

Photograph by Roxi Mueller , My Shot

In the blink of this horse s eye, the blue sky becomes a counterpoint to its stare. Early horses arose in North America some five million years ago, only to die out and be introduced, in domesticated form, by Spanish conquistador Hern n Cort s in 1519.

(From the National Geographic book Visions of Earth)

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