Top 14 Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin

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

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.

Death by starvation is slow.

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

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

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

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.

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

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

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