{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/the-mountains-of-things",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/the-mountains-of-things.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/the-mountains-of-things.md",
  "id": "67a566c2-c3f5-40b1-90f3-e2c60752cdbe",
  "slug": "the-mountains-of-things",
  "text": "The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "John Steinbeck",
    "slug": "john-steinbeck",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "Travels with Charley in Search of America",
    "slug": "travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": null,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "consumerism",
      "slug": "consumerism",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consumerism"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Travels_With_Charley:_In_Search_of_America_(1962)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:04",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "f608716c-ca81-46f1-a42b-0e97fce7210e",
      "slug": "sectional-football-games",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/sectional-football-games",
      "text": "Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        },
        {
          "name": "sport",
          "slug": "sport",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sport"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Travels_With_Charley:_In_Search_of_America_(1962)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:04"
    },
    {
      "id": "efbd1931-07c1-465e-8003-358027cb320b",
      "slug": "when-we-get",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/when-we-get",
      "text": "When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "travel",
          "slug": "travel",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Travels_With_Charley:_In_Search_of_America_(1962)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:04"
    },
    {
      "id": "ec3af058-d1f0-4a52-a231-f471b9d4e2d2",
      "slug": "we-value-virtue",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/we-value-virtue",
      "text": "We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "kindness",
          "slug": "kindness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness"
        },
        {
          "name": "media",
          "slug": "media",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/media"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Travels_With_Charley:_In_Search_of_America_(1962)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:04"
    }
  ]
}