Edwin Way Teale

Writer

1899-06-02

Books by Edwin Way Teale

Wandering Through Winter

A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-mile Journey Through the North American Winter
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Adventures in Nature
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Exploring the Insect World with Edwin Way Teale
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Quotes by Edwin Way Teale

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
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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.
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
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Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
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Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.
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Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things. For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.
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In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
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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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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
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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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The world s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May
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How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!
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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.
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