"Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading,……" — Edwin Way Teale
"Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone."
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37 Quotes by Edwin Way Teale
Edwin Way Teale has 37 quotes on this site.
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I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart…
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Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover…
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It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or…
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How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
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The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of…
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Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities…
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If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
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Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend,…
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The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of…
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How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and…
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How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions…
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In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
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