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
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.
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.
tree growth unhappy
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
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....
grizzly-bears grizzlies dare
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.
racism sacred common
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.
flower rain land
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.
moon white friendly
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.
spring fighting feet
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.
children names trying
It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.
men not-sure careless
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.