All Edwin Way Teale Quotes
- 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… Autumn
- 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!… Cover
- 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… Class
- How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers. Beautiful
- The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint. Beauty
- Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. Alone
- If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest. Care
- 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,… Alone
- 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… Able
- 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… Birth
- 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
- In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. Art
- 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.… Age
- 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… Accept
- Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow. Any
- For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace. Best
- A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives. Bluebird
- 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… Almost Anything
- How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring! Knowledge
- It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not... Bad
- Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone. Better
- Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise. Evolve
- Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have… Affection
- 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… Association
- The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. Angler