Edwin Way Teale Quotes

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• I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer…
• Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides!…
• It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race…
• How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
• The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.
• Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
• If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
• Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you,…
• The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take…
• 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…
• 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…
• In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
• The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark.…
• It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the…
• Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
• For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.
• A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.
• You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of…
• How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!
• It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not...

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