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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: This is the sense of
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: If you ever, ever, ever
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: As I walk .. as
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 Hunter Austin Quotes: Over the tops of it,
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Man is not himself only
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Rabbits are a foolish people.
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Probably we never fully credit
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Life set itself to new
I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: I do not know who
Death by starvation is slow.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Death by starvation is slow.
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: I am not sure that
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: The utmost the American novelist
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: People would be surprised to
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: The desert floras shame us
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: I suppose that Italy must
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: In the common esteem, not
For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: For one thing there is
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.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: The palpable sense of mystery
Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Even the people who have
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 Quotes: What women have to stand
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: I suppose no man becomes
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 ...
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Of the first philosophers, then,
There is another sort of beauty playing always about the Pueblo country, beauty of cloud and rain and split sunlight... Everywhere peace, impenetrable timelessness of peace, as though the pueblo and all it contains were shut in a glassy fourth dimension, near and at the same time inaccessibly remote.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: There is another sort of
For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: For all the toll the
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 Quotes: Man is a great blunderer
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Man learned to resort to
Genius ... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: Genius ... arises in the
The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.
Mary Hunter Austin Quotes: The arc of my mind
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 Hunter Austin Quotes: Nevertheless there are certain peaks,
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