John Steinbeck Quotes about Earth

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

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

John Steinbeck

Nature, Garden, Earth

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

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.