Nature Quotes by John Steinbeck

“They could get it," Doc said. "They could ruin their lives and get money. Mack has qualities of genius. They're all very…

— John Steinbeck

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

— John Steinbeck

“Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains…

— John Steinbeck

“To find not only that this bedlam of color was true but that the pictures were pale and inaccurate translations, was to…

— John Steinbeck

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

— John Steinbeck

“The surface of the earth crusted. A thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink…

— John Steinbeck

“I been thinkin'," he said. "I been in the hills, thinkin', almost you might say like Jesus went into the wilderness to…

— John Steinbeck

“In the beginning of this record i tried to explore the nature of journeys, how they are things in themselves, each one…

— John Steinbeck

“They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came…

— John Steinbeck

“​There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure…

— John Steinbeck

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English…

— John Steinbeck

“On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their…

— John Steinbeck

And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth…

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

“I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns…

— John Steinbeck

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

— John Steinbeck

Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his…

— John Steinbeck

A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over…

— John Steinbeck

A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.…

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better

— John Steinbeck

“It seemed to me that the earth was generous and outgoing here in the heartland, and perhaps the people took a cue…

— John Steinbeck

“Our Father who art in nature...must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the…

— John Steinbeck

“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I…

— John Steinbeck

“But now I been thinkin' what he said, an' I can remember-all of it. Says one time he went out in the…

— John Steinbeck

“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.”

— John Steinbeck