Mary Austin Quotes (31 Quotes)


    These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.

    Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.

    So wide is the range of the scavengers that it is never safe to say, eyewitness to the contrary, that there are few or many in such a place.

    There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.

    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.


    Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

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

    You know, the chances of there being a nuclear or biological event in Monroe are slim but there is a chance of a chemical disaster simply because of all the industries we have in the area that use a wide variety of chemicals, ... So this really reinforces the importance of our ability to collaborate with other agencies.

    I think it went very well. We can always find things to improve, that's why we do drills.

    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.

    They felt our system plan worked very well but communications could have been improved,

    There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass.

    No man can be stronger than his destiny.

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

    From the time that he had first found, himself alone with them, Oliver had felt sure that the animals could come alive again if they wished.


    We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pasture near the old greenhouse and moved it closer to the house.

    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.

    Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

    Working with Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB allows us to directly reach large populations affected by diabetes, many of whom do not know they are at risk for diabetes or possibly even have the disease, ... Diabetes can be managed and even prevented with diabetes education and the right care. That's what this event is all about.

    People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

    Cattle once down may be days in dying. They stretch out their necks along the ground, and roll up their slow eyes at longer intervals.

    For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

    Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

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

    If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.

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

    To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

    Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

    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.

    I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.


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