John Steinbeck Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Men, Past

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.29, Hamilton Books

• To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Rain, Book

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Garden, Earth

• It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

  John Steinbeck

  Sick, Literature, Earth

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Intent", 1977.

• A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then-the glory-so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Eye, Dark

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.106, Penguin

• It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

  John Steinbeck

  Humble, Fighting, Lazy

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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

  John Steinbeck

  Cake, Heaven, Earth

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.138, Penguin

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