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

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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

Edwin Way Teale Time

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

Edwin Way Teale Crowds Nature Secrets Solitude Thoughts

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

~ Edwin Way Teale

Edwin Way Teale Man Nature

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

~ Edwin Way Teale

Edwin Way Teale Death Dying