John Steinbeck Quotes About Nature
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
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Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.
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The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
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There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
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In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.
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