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
unity genius natural
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
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.
country fashion land
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
blood skins variation
Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.
tree growth unhappy
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
dream lying air
I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.
spiritual moral morality
It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.
numbers water elements
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 which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water....
mind novelists literature
The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist's gift is that of access to the collective mind.