Mary Hunter Austin - Desert Quotes

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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.

Mary Hunter Austin

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

Mary Hunter Austin

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

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.

Mary Hunter Austin

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

Mary Hunter Austin

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.

Mary Hunter Austin