The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to … - Mary Hunter Austin

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The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

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 hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. . . . One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.

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Man is not himself only. . . He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources. . . He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

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

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

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For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

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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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