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Religion, to be a factor in experience, must be pleasurable.
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I do not know who sings my songs
Before they are sung by me.
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Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.
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It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.
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It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
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The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
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Genius... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
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Valleys are the sunken places of the earth, cañons are scored out by the glacier ploughs of God.
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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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'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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Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
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When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
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Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you.
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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 manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
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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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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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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.
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That curious social warp which obligates us most to impeach the validity of a woman's opinion at the points where it is most supported by experience.
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As I walk.. as I walk..
The universe.. is walking with me..
Beautifully.. it walks before me....
Beautifully.. on every side....
As I walk.. I walk with beauty.
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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.
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What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Mary Hunter Austin
Born:
September 9, 1868
Died:
August 13, 1934
(aged 65)
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