Edwin Way Teale Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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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 TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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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 TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”
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“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.”
-- Edwin Way TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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“All things seem possible in May.”
-- Edwin Way TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”
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“The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.”
-- Edwin Way TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”
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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 TealeSource : "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.
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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 TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead
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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 TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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“For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.”
-- Edwin Way TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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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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“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. 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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“Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.”
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“A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.”
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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 TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!”
-- Edwin Way TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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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.”
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“It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not...”
-- Edwin Way TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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“Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”
-- Edwin Way TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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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.”
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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.”
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“Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.”
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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 TealeSource : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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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
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