On Tiptoe A Romance of the Redwoods Author:Stewart Edward White General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: George H. Doran Company Description: 1922. The novel begins: The great Intelligences who work back of our ordered universe are obscure to us. They move without haste and in their own good time. Never are their faces revealed to us. We are aware of them by... more » their deeds, by their shadowed reflections in men, by the interactions of their laws which never change. Nothing do we know and few things have we guessed of their intentions or the aim of their mighty progressions. At one extreme of our vision the primal ooze; at the other, men as we know them; beyond that veil. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Subjects: Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III AS often happens at skylines in California, the nature of the country there changed. They had toiled up an open hillside of scattered trees and dense brush. They slid into an immense, cool, high forest, with dripping waters. The scale of things had been changed. This should have been the abode of giants. The trees were twenty feet thick and incredibly tall. The shafts were straight as columns, and through the Gothic windows, that here and there penetrated the dim high arches of their tops, struck slanting bands of milky light around which was transparent green shadow. In the upper region was a great simplicity, an absolute nirvanic stillness, and an incredible dim height. Burton had seen redwood trees before, at Santa Cruz, and on the Russian River; and had been struck small by them, as is always the most careless visitor. But never had she seen one of the redwood forests of the north....« less