Mary Hunter Austin
Mary Hunter Austin
Mary Hunter Austinwas an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Raindescribes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 September 1868
CountryUnited States of America
men hunters firsts
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
grizzly-bears grizzlies dare
If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going, / Or what he is doing; / For if you ever, ever dare / To stop a grizzly bear, / You will never meet another grizzly bear.
racism sacred common
In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.
running spring water
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 - there is no help for any of these things.
flower rain land
The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.
moon white friendly
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.
men dancing resorts
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
spring fighting feet
Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.
children names trying
It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.
men not-sure careless
I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.
thinking views names
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 nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears
unity genius natural
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
women world way
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 validity of their seeing it in some other way.
credit kind affair
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.