All Edwin Way Teale Quotes
- 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
- For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. Balm
- The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. Beauty
- 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,… Animal
- Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Clutter
- Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind… Among
- It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it… Bad
- If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of… All
- Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. Always Inhabit
- For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. Abroad
- 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… Autumn
- To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the… Advice
- The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles… Across