You know something, Flaca? I guess I saw who knows how many trees before I ever took a long, thoughtful look at one. Mostly, I looked at a tree to see was there a bear in it or an Indian behind it.

— Davy Crockett (John Wayne)

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13 seconds sound clip from the The Alamo (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:08:18.745 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Every one of those men has been at my elbow, save the boy Smitty, when some difficulty arose.

- Some of them don't bathe as often as polite folks would think necessary, but every one of them smells sweet to me.

- And I was the one that said this country was burnt-over sand. It's green and growing, like those green pastures they talk about.

- Lord above, that's one beautiful tree.

- This tree must have been growed before... man put his first dirty footprints on this prairie. Kind of a tree Adam and Eve must've met under.

- You know something, Flaca? I guess I saw who knows how many trees before I ever took a long, thoughtful look at one. Mostly, I looked at a tree to see was there a bear in it or an Indian behind it.

- Davy, what's going to happen to us? I mean, to you and me.

- I'm gonna tell you something, Flaca, and I want you to listen tight. It may sound like I'm talking about me, but I'm not, I'm talking about you. As a matter of fact, I'm talking about all people, everywhere.

- When I come down here to Texas, I was looking for something. I didn't know what.

- It seems like you added up my life, and I'd spent it all either stomping other men or, in some cases, getting stomped.

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