Mary Hunter Austin Quote

The true desert breeds its own kind, each in its particular habitat. The angle of the slope, the frontage of a hill, the structure of the soil determines the plant.


The Land of Little Rain - The Land of Little Rain (p. 9), Houghton Mifflin Company. 1903


The true desert breeds its own kind, each in its particular habitat. The angle of the slope, the frontage of a hill, the structure of the soil...

The true desert breeds its own kind, each in its particular habitat. The angle of the slope, the frontage of a hill, the structure of the soil...

The true desert breeds its own kind, each in its particular habitat. The angle of the slope, the frontage of a hill, the structure of the soil...

The true desert breeds its own kind, each in its particular habitat. The angle of the slope, the frontage of a hill, the structure of the soil...