"Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd.……" — Edwin Way Teale
"Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd."
—
Edwin Way Teale
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
37 Quotes by Edwin Way Teale
Edwin Way Teale has 37 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart…
-
Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover…
-
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or…
-
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
-
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of…
-
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities…
-
If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
-
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of…
-
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and…
-
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions…
-
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
-
The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine.…
See all 37 quotes by Edwin Way Teale »
More Alone Quotes
This quote is filed under Alone Quotes,
one of 10,353 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
-
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
-
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
-
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
-
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
-
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
-
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
-
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
-
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
-
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
-
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
-
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
See all 10,353 Alone Quotes »