Edwin Way Teale

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks….But where, who can say, down the long stream of time, are our eroded days deposited?”

“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.”