The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

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.

Rabbits 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.

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

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.