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title: "2 Pocket Hunter Quotes By Mary Hunter Austin"
description: "2 Pocket Hunter quotes by Mary Hunter Austin. Plus more from Mary Hunter Austin and more Pocket Hunter sayings from other authors."
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> [Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/over-the-tops-of-it-beginning-to-dusk-under-a-young-white-moon/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

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> [I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/i-suppose-no-man-becomes-a-pocket-hunter-by-first-intention/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

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## More by Mary Hunter Austin

> [Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/over-the-tops-of-it-beginning-to-dusk-under-a-young-white-moon/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/genius-arises-in-the-natural-aboriginal-concern-for-the-conscious/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/man-is-not-himself-only-he-is-all-that-he-sees-all-that-flows-to-him/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/this-is-the-sense-of-the-desert-hills-that-there-is-room-enough-and/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [No man can be stronger than his destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/no-man-can-be-stronger-than-his-destiny/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/the-utmost-the-american-novelist-can-hope-for-if-he-hopes-at-all-to/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/man-learned-to-resort-to-the-dance-when-he-felt-helpless-or/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/life-set-itself-to-new-processions-of-seed-time-and-harvest-the-skin/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/in-the-common-esteem-not-only-are-the-only-good-aboriginals-dead-ones/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/all-mountain-streets-have-streams-to-thread-them-or-deep-grooves/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/you-have-to-beat-out-for-yourself-many-mornings-on-the-windy/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/as-i-walk-as-i-walk-the-universe-is-walking-with-me-beautifully-it/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/man-is-a-great-blunderer-going-about-in-the-woods-and-there-is-no/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/of-the-first-philosophers-then-most-thought-the-principles-which-were/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

> [I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hunter-austin/i-do-not-know-who-sings-my-songs-before-they-are-sung-by-me/)

[Mary Hunter Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-hunter-austin/)

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