Quotes By 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
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
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
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
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
For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
Mary Austin