"It is easier to accept the message of……" — Edwin Way Teale
"It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now."
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Edwin Way Teale
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37 Quotes by Edwin Way Teale
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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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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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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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