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Mary Austin

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

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

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"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."
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"The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion."
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"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."
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"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."
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"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."
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"Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas."
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"Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind."
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"I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention."
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"This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough."
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"Death by starvation is slow."
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