Adel Emmanuel > Adel's Quotes

“..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“The man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide over an outcropping, kneeling in the earth to eat his lunch; that man who is more than his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. But the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself, then the corrugated iron doors are shut, he goes home, and his home is not the land.”
― John Steinbeck