Horses once existed in the wild, in herds. Horses once galloped far among themselves, to where their instincts, their ears and sense of smell, guided them.

Now, almost all horses can't survive without a human. Life is like a labyrinthe - horses cannot leave their fenced-in homes without a human-driven vehicle and a horse trailer, or a human guiding or riding them along roads and streets to another gated area. Much of their diets are determined and provided by their owners, rather than met in the wild meadows of grains and grasses, berries, crabapples, and plums. Many are single - out of touch completely from other horses.

Many humans now support the preservation of wilderness areas. (This didn't use to be necessary, a human decision. Wilderness just existed, and humans were a a part of that wilderness with all other species. There has been rapid, dramatic change especially in the last two centuries.) Somehow, thinking of the evolution of horses from their independence, to dependence on and subjugation to humans, makes clearer a bigger perspective. How important wilderness is to the souls of horses, and to the soul of all life on our dear planet earth!