51 Quotes by Edwin Way Teale

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.

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

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.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

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.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not...

The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.