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?

~ Edwin Way Teale

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.

~ Edwin Way Teale

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

~ Edwin Way Teale

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

~ Edwin Way Teale

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.

~ Edwin Way Teale

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

~ Edwin Way Teale

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

~ Edwin Way Teale

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

~ Edwin Way Teale