Quotes from Edwin Way Teale

Here in this wild and beautiful spot amid the mountains, the dark woods, the rising mist, the new moon hanging above the silhouettes of the peaks, we waited, in spite of the night chill, until the last sunlight of the spring had ebbed from the sky.

On the roughest days of winter, when life seems overwhelmed by storm and cold, watch a chickadee, observe in good cheer and take heart.

Bluebird blue....one of the loveliest manifestations of the color blue.

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

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 living.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

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

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

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.

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

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.

We say we have to work so hard in in order to get so little in life. That little may be more than we need. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

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