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Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer known for her descriptions of the desert landscapes in the southwestern United States. Her works are often characterized by a naturalist style that depicts the natural scenery and local culture of the American Southwest.

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

Men Giving Stars Sleep Breaths Desert Communion Compensation Deep Breath Tolls Deep Sleep

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.”

Littles Lost Air Mystery Mines Tradition Strikes Treasure Desert Snakes Fables

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.”

Trying Humans May Whole Quality Land Flower Duty Rain Shame Fruit Limitation Desert Cheerful Adaptation Offspring Tropical Flora

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

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

Enough Rooms Hills Desert

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

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

Growth Tree Atheism Produce Unhappy Desert

Book:Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin

Source: Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin

About the Author

Born: September 9, 1868
Died: August 13, 1934
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 39

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