Edwin Way Teale quotes

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. (Edwin Way Teale)
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. View quote
Edwin Way Teale
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. View quote
Edwin Way Teale
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. View quote
Edwin Way Teale
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. View quote
Edwin Way Teale
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. View quote
Edwin Way Teale
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. View quote
Edwin Way Teale
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. View quote
Edwin Way Teale
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow. View quote
Edwin Way Teale