It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

- 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 b…

- Mary Hunter Austin

The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturate…

- Mary Hunter Austin

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.

- Mary Hunter Austin

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 hardl…

- Mary Hunter Austin

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

- Mary Hunter Austin

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

- Mary Hunter Austin

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I…

- Mary Hunter Austin

The 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 Austin