Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

Mary Hunter Austin — American Writer born on September 09, 1868, died on August 13, 1934

Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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

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