Edwin Way Teale

“It is those who have compassion for all life who will best safeguard the life of man. Those who become aroused only…

— Edwin Way Teale

The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of…

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at…

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

“Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our…

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them…

— Edwin Way Teale

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all…

— Edwin Way Teale

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun…

— Edwin Way Teale

I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the…

— Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is…

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's…

— Edwin Way Teale

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel…

— Edwin Way Teale

Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile…

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

All things seem possible in May.

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Edwin Way Teale