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
breathed cleanest
For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
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.
nature men land
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.
nature taken men
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.
rooms desert hills
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
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.
starvation
Death by starvation is slow.
unity genius natural
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
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.
tree growth unhappy
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas