"How vivid is the suffering of the few……" — Edwin Way Teale
"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 over by numbers."
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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 strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and…
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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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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
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When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph…
— Phil Robertson
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I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at…
— Albert Claude
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On whether Blurred Lines' video is sexist: I don't. I really appreciate the people who watch out for that stuff,…
— Emily Ratajkowski
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We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation…
— Unknown Author
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You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.
— C.S. Lewis
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...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature;…
— James Hansen
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People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really…
— Taylor Momsen
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In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed.…
— Michael Denton
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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and…
— Jean Genet
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy…
— Gayle Forman
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