Edwin Way Teale Quotes

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

All things seem possible in May.

It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.

For the mind disturbed the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.