Top 35 Mary Hunter Austin Quotes
#1. For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
Mary Hunter Austin
#2. This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Mary Hunter Austin
#3. The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
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#4. 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 Hunter Austin
#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
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#9. Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
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#10. Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.
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#11. All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.
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#12. As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me ... / Beautifully .. on every side ... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#18. Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Mary Hunter Austin
#19. People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
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#20. The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
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#21. Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.
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#23. Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.
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#25. It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.
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#26. It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.
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#27. You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Waban and the spray of your garden hose. And not necessarily then do you live up to it.
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#28. For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
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#29. Genius ... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
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#30. 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.
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#31. When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
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#32. 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.
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#33. The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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