The Land of Little Rain Quotes

“If one is inclined to wonder at first how so many dwellers came to be in the loneliest land that ever came out of God's hands, what they do there and why stay, one does not wonder so much after having lived there. None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm. They trick the sense of time, so that once inhabiting there you always mean to go away without quite realizing that you have not done it.”
― Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain

“endurance. But prospectors and Indians get a kind of a weather shell that remains on the body until death.”
― Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain

“En nuestra sociedad, cuando una mujer deja de cambiarse el peinado, uno supone que ha superado la crisis de su vida. Si sigue ondulándose o alisándose el cabello con las modas pasajeras, suele suponerse que nunca se ha enfrentado a nada demasiado trascendental para ella.”
― Mary Austin, La tierra de poca lluvia

“They trick the sense of time, so that once inhabiting there you always mean to go away without quite realizing that you have not done it. Men who have lived there, miners and cattlemen, will tell you this, not so fluently, but emphatically, cursing the land and going back to it. For”
― Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain

“Trust Indians not to miss any virtues of the plant world! Nothing”
― Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain

“perpetuity.”
― Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain