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Mary Hunter Austin

(1868–1934) Writer United States

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Mary Hunter Austin was a writer from the United States, best known for The Land of Little Rain.

Quick Facts About Mary Hunter Austin

Born: September 9, 1868
Died: August 13, 1934
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Land of Little Rain
Spouse: Stafford Wallace Austin

About Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin · Page 2

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

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Continuity

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I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to…

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Careless

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The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I…

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Arcs

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It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

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Children

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For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the…

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Breaths

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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a…

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Accounts

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If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going,…

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Asks

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Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

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Genius

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I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at…

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Air

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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked…

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Dry

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Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

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Bears

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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

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Firsts

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Death by starvation is slow.

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Death

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