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Mary Austin
American
Writer
About the author
Death by starvation is slow.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Death
#Starvation
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Time
#Sense
For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#God
#World
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Man
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.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Words
#Fame
#Names
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Man
#Destiny
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Growth
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.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#End
#Beginning
#Moon
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#People
#Prayer
#Poker
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Man
#First
#Intention
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Life
#Will
#Country
#Land
#Fashion
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.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Right
#Help
#Running
#Water
#Spring
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.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#World
#Ability
#Men
#Women
#Importance
#Validity
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
Mary Austin,
American
Writer
#Credit