"It is not races but individuals that are……" — Edwin Way Teale
"It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high."
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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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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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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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