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

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Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.56, Rutgers University Press

Mary Hunter Austin

#Rooms Quotes #Desert Quotes #Hills Quotes

“Iâ€™m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.”
“You're a mouse studying to be a rat.”

Source : Quoted in Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners (1953)
“Donald Trump's words are are not funny, his words are poisonous.”
“Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.”
“The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.”
“'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.”
“But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.”
“Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.”

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