No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Samuel smiled at him. “They say man lived in trees one time. Somebody had to get dissatisfied with a high limb or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Someone's got to do these things,' he said sullenly. 'Or else fate would not ever get nose-thumbed and mankind would still be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The trees and the muscled mountains are the world – but not the world apart from man – the world and man… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I have had a lifelong association with these things. (Odd that the word 'trees' does not apply.) I can accept them and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
