51 Quotes by Edwin Way Teale

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

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.

Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to “propagate” a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today’s scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

Eliminate the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

The “dead of winter” – – how much more dead it would be each year without the birds!