"How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length……" — Edwin Way Teale
"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 a true measure of your days of living."
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Edwin Way Teale
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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 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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The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine.…
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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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