“The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!” “But hers was a strange heart, sad in its very nature, and she could never weep and ease it as other women do, for her tears never brought her comfort.” “And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again.” Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live - no one can rob you of land.” “It is the end of a family - when they begin to sell their land. “And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.” It received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1932. The Good Earth, Pearl Buck’s second novel, is her best-known work and remains the one that defined her place in American literature. Following are quotes from The Good Earth, a classic novel that’s still widely read and studied.īuck had a prolific career, authoring some seventy books, and was also a dedicated human rights advocate, founding the East and West Association in 1941. She was also the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Buck (1892 – 1973) was an American author of fiction and nonfiction, humanitarian, and human rights advocate.
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