Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

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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 similar view of… Accounts
• Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of… Agree
• The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion. Country
• 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 of… All
• When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience. Alter
• This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough Desert
• Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas Better
• Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe. Dance
• No man can be stronger than his destiny. Destiny
• 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… Beginning
• What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and… Ability
• To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water… Any
• Death by starvation is slow. Death
• Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. Affair
• Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. Bear
• I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention. Becomes
• Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. Aboriginal
• Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the… All
• People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. From

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