comment on the poetic description of the landscape by a novelist steinbeck
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Stethepearl stein beckinbeck had a glorious sense of humanity as inextricable from nature while simultaneously beyond it. "Nitrates are not the land," he writes in his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath, "nor phosphates and the length of fiber in the cotton is not the land. Carbon is not a man, nor salt nor water nor calcium. He is all these, but he is much more, much more; and the land is so much more than its analysis." To be removed from the land is to be removed from fellow man, Steinbeck argues. While immigrant workers maintain the fields, sacrificing their bodies to the crops, the farm owners are far away. They ruminate over papers, over numbers and documents, far from the workers whose toil they require.
As Steinbeck suggests, it is a human duty to be familiar with the elements that compose us and our environment. Yet while we are made of these things, we are far greater than the sum of our parts. To prevent us from running away with our arrogance, we must constantly recognize our fellowship with nature. And nature, while something to respect, is also something we must evolve from as we strive to be kinder and more compassionate human beings.