Edwin Way Teale Quotes

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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