Edwin Way Teale Quotes

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

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

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

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.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.

The measure of enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

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.

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

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