John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony."
Colony quotes
13 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony."
"Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists."
"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent."
"Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony."
"We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders."
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