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Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
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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.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
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Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
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Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.
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The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.
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It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.
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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.
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Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.
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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.
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If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear,
You must never, never, never ask him where
He is going,
Or what he is doing;
For if you ever, ever dare
To stop a grizzly bear,
You will never meet another grizzly bear.
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'A man,' says Seyavi of the campoodie, 'must have a woman, but a woman who has a child will do very well.'
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Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
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Religion, to be a factor in experience, must be pleasurable.
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Genius... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
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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.
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
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The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist's gift is that of access to the collective mind.
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Come away, you who are obsessed with your own importance in the scheme of things, and have got nothing you did not sweat for, come away by the brown valleys and full-bosomed hills to the even-breathing days, to the kindliness, earthiness, ease of El Pueblo de Las Uvas.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Mary Hunter Austin
Born:
September 9, 1868
Died:
August 13, 1934
(aged 65)
Bio:
Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer.
Known for:
The Land of Little Rain (1903)
The basket woman (1904)
A Woman of Genius (1912)
The Arrow Maker (1911)
Taos Pueblo (1930)
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