"Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than……" — Mary Hunter Austin
"Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas"
—
Mary Hunter Austin
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
19 Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin
Mary Hunter Austin has 19 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods,…
-
Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles…
-
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except…
-
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is…
-
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of…
-
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
-
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
-
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
-
Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and…
-
What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see…
-
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where…
-
Death by starvation is slow.
See all 19 quotes by Mary Hunter Austin »
More Better Quotes
This quote is filed under Better Quotes,
one of 25,349 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
-
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
— Aristotle
-
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
-
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
-
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western…
— Karen Armstrong
-
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
-
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
-
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
-
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
-
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
See all 25,349 Better Quotes »