Nature Quotes by John Steinbeck

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

— 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- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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