48 Quotes by Mary Hunter 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.

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.

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Death by starvation is slow.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

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.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas