About Edwin Way Teale: Edwin Way Teale is perhaps best known for his series The American Seasons, four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America following the changing seasons.
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 .
If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
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.
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 wildf...
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
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.
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
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.
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.
