Featuring an editorial-style illustration of John Steinbeck & Ed Ricketts, elements of the adventures they undertook as best friends, and a quote from The Log from the Sea of Cortez, this mug will transport you back in time to the days of Cannery Row. The perfect gift for a marine biologist or literary fan!

Quote:
“…Let us go,” we said, “into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too.” And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn’t terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn’t very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is. -John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

**This product is printed on demand and is fulfilled by a third party. Due to this, I am not able to accept returns or exchanges. However, if you have any issues with your order please contact me at thelocalnaturalist@gmail.com. Fulfillment is estimated at 7-14 days. If you order other items from my store, those items will ship separately.

Designed by: The Local Naturalist
Fulfilled by: Printful

• Ceramic
• 15 oz mug dimensions: 4.7″ (12 cm) in height, 3.35″ (8.5 cm) in diameter
• Dishwasher and microwave safe
• Blank product sourced from China