Facts about Mary Austin

Occup.	Writer
From	USA
Born	September 9, 1868
Died	August 13, 1934
Aged	65 years

Summary

Mary Austin was a famous Writer from USA, who lived between September 9, 1868 and August 13, 1934. He/she became 65 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Mary.

Related authors: Freddie Mercury (Musician)

14 Famous quotes by Mary Austin

"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

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

Mary Austin

"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

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

Mary Austin

"No man can be stronger than his destiny"

Mary Austin

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

Mary Austin

"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 Austin

"Death by starvation is slow"

Mary Austin

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

Mary Austin

"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 Austin

"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 Austin

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

Mary Austin

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

Mary Austin

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

Mary Austin