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Select Mary Austin Quotations

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

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Mary Austin

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

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

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

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

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Mary Austin

All Mary Austin Quotations

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Death, Slow, Starvation

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Death, Slow, Starvation