51 Quotes by 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.

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

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.

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.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

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.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.