John Steinbeck Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

  John Steinbeck

  Cities, Mountain, Use

• It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.

  John Steinbeck

  Color, Land, Mountain

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

• Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Jewels, Rivers

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

• He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Sea, Soul

  John Steinbeck (1993). “The Pearl”, p.61, Penguin

• In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

  John Steinbeck

  Kings, Business, Men

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.149, Penguin

• The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

  John Steinbeck

  Mountain, Use, Way

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.19, Penguin

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