Mary Hunter Austin Quotes


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


Citations

Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903, p. 47.

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Mary Hunter Austin
Mary Hunter Austin
  • Born: September 9, 1868
  • Died: August 13, 1934
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.