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Top 25 Mary Hunter Austin Quotes (2025 Update)

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.”

1. “For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.”

2. “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

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.”

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

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.”

4. “The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “It is no use trying to improve on children’s names for wildflowers.”

5. “It is no use trying to improve on children’s names for wildflowers.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Death by starvation is slow.”

6. “Death by starvation is slow.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “No man can be stronger than his destiny.”

7. “No man can be stronger than his destiny.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don’t get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.”

8. “Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don’t get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.”

10. “It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.”

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

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.”

12. “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

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.”

13. “All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.”

14. “Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.”

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

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.”

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

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Waban and the spray of your garden hose. And not necessarily then do you live up to it.”

18. “You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Waban and the spray of your garden hose. And not necessarily then do you live up to it.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.”

19. “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

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.”

21. “Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.”

22. “I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.”

23. “In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.”

24. “Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin Quote: “Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.”

25. “Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.”

— Mary Hunter Austin

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