"This is the sense of the desert hills,……" — Mary Hunter Austin

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room… - Mary Hunter Austin

"This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough"

— Mary Hunter Austin

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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…
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
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.

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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert… — Orlando Bloom
Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits… — Buzz Aldrin
My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a… — Nicolas Cage
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within… — Albert Camus
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets… — Noam Chomsky
...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the… — Laozi
The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either… — Unknown Author
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this… — Edmond Jabes
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help… — Alan Valentine
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the… — Edward Abbey

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