Mary Austin

Death by starvation is slow. ↗

— Mary Austin

#slow #starvation

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

— Mary Austin

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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention. ↗

— Mary Austin

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

— Mary Austin

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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

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No man can be stronger than his destiny. ↗

— Mary Austin

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

— Mary Austin

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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

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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ↗

— Mary Austin

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Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. ↗

— Mary Austin

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