Beauty Quote by Edwin Way Teale

“The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.” quote by Edwin Way Teale — Download Open image

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

Edwin Way Teale

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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 a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide.…

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A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

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