Quotes by Edwin Way Teale - Page 1

All things seem possible in May.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
May
Seems
Spring
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A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Men
Half
Half Life
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For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Pace
Snail
Trekking
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If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Men
Care
Take Care
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How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Knowledge
Time
Spring
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It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.
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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Beauty
Nature
Medical
Dawn
Disturbed
Environment
Finest
Mind
Balm
Still
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Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Evolve
Noise
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The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.
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May
Spring
World
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In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
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Death
Nature
Destruction
Transmutation
Less
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Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
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Morning
Tree
Years
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Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Distance
Illusion
Worry
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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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Nature
Beautiful
Tree
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Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Alone
Space
May
Moving
Scarcity
Time And Space
Tomorrow
Time Space Great
Alone Time Great
Alone Space Time
Move
Well
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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Life
Complexity
Greed
Simple
Labors
Needless
Reduce
Themselves
Wants
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Beauty
Funny
Nature
Plus
Utility
Between
Difference
Spider
Telephone
Web
Wires
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For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Time
Autumn
Fall
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Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Life
Fading
Long
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The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Success
Heart
Interesting
Taken
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Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Time
Autumn
Fall
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To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.
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Bird
Dollars
Tree
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The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Fighting
Self
Wild Beauty
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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Respect
Pet
Animal
Baby
Love Life
Normal
Wish
Animals
Wild
Natures
Wild Animals
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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.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
War
Millions
Numbers
Two
Vivid
Blurred
World Suffering People
Wars
World Wars
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It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Science
Feel Good
Long
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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.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Space
Birth
Length Of Life
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As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.
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Bird
Population
Together
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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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Men
Long
Stars
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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.
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Crowds
Secret
Shy
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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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Class
Philosophical
Race
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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. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.
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Dark
Night
Sunshine
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You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory!
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Answers
Understanding
Years
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To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Men
Country
Land
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Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Believe
Mean
People
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Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Nature
Home
Land
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I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun.
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Autumn
Fall
Summer
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Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.
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Eye
Feet
Garden
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Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Nature
Doors
Rain
Simple
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The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Home
Fighting
Odds
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The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Men
Average
Spring
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If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.
Edwin Way Teale / Naturalist
Lonely
Song
Spiritual
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