Mary Hunter Austin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Men #Great Men #Not Sure
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Unity #Genius #Natural
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Men #Hunters #Firsts
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

#Men #Bears #Noise
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Credit #Kind #Affair
Death by starvation is slow.
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Starvation
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 Hunter Austin

#Running #Spring #Water
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.
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Women #World #Way
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 Hunter Austin

#Moon #White #Friendly
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Fate #Men #Destiny
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Men #Dancing #Resorts
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Tree #Growth #Unhappy
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Rooms #Desert #Hills
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

#Fashion #Hair #Experience
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.
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Nature #Men #Land
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

#Country #Fashion #Land
Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water....
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Numbers #Water #Elements
Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears
-- Mary Hunter Austin

#Thinking #Views #Names

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