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Mary Hunter Austin quotes: 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.

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.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

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

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

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

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: Death by starvation is slow.

Death by starvation is slow.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: Genius ... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Genius ... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: No man can be stronger than his destiny.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

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

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 Hunter Austin quotes: People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

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

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

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

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

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

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

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

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

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

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

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: 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.

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.

Mary Hunter Austin quotes: I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

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