Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Mary Hunter AustinNothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
Mary Hunter AustinThe manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
Mary Hunter AustinYou have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Waban and the spray of your garden hose. And not necessarily then do you live up to it.
Mary Hunter AustinRabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.
Mary Hunter Austin