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.
men dancing resorts
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
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.
fate destiny men
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
nature taken men
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.
real men genius
The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
stars sleep men
For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
nature men land
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 its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
ability importance seeing women
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.
above certain clear familiar great nobly spaces whom
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 nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
breathed cleanest
For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
people genius knows
Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.
years quality genius
Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.
starvation
Death by starvation is slow.