Nature Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 2

“Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.”

— John Steinbeck

“Hm-m," he said. "Lookie, Ma. I been all day an' all night hidin' alone. Guess who I been thinkin' about? Casy! He…

— John Steinbeck

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut…

— John Steinbeck

“Lee carried a tin lantern to light the way, for it was one of those clear early winter nights when the sky…

— John Steinbeck

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to…

— John Steinbeck

“There's a capacity for apetite," Samuel said, "that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy”

— John Steinbeck

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

— 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

“There's a capacity for appetite,' Samuel said, 'that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.”

— John Steinbeck

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

— John Steinbeck

“When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that…

— John Steinbeck

“Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he…

— John Steinbeck

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we…

— 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

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

— John Steinbeck

“A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty.”

— John Steinbeck

“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change…

— John Steinbeck

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

— John Steinbeck

“The man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles…

— John Steinbeck

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to…

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

— John Steinbeck

“That man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles…

— John Steinbeck

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted…

— John Steinbeck