Quotes About Teale

#1. 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

#2. Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.

Edwin Way Teale

#3. You and I are more alike than you think," Alistair says.
"I don't see that at all," I say.
"Besides the fact that we both lied about our names," I add.

Carolyn MacCullough

#4. To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

Edwin Way Teale

#5. Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do ...

George Lois

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

Edwin Way Teale

#7. My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

Cammi Granato

#8. 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.

Edwin Way Teale

#9. The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.

Edwin Way Teale

#10. He was no defensive fighter; even in the teeth of overwhelming odds he always carried the war to the enemy.

Robert E. Howard

#11. Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. If someone wanted to be with you, after all, they just made it happen.

Jojo Moyes

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

Edwin Way Teale

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

Edwin Way Teale

#15. 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.

Edwin Way Teale

#16. I remember Robin [Williams] walked up to me after the last take and said, "Thanks boss! We nailed it!" That will probably be one of the best moments of my life.

Roberto Aguire

#17. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

Jonathan Groff

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

Edwin Way Teale

#19. 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

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

Edwin Way Teale

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

Edwin Way Teale

#22. Their marriage was cold and tedious. Formal and unloving. Stale even. She never had any regrets like this with Jack. With Jack, a rainy day would be cheerful.

LeeAnn Whitaker

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

Edwin Way Teale

#24. Finally, after Death was ready to hang himself from boredom, the director cleared his throat.

Leigh Teale

#25. How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

Edwin Way Teale

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

Edwin Way Teale

#27. The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May.

Edwin Way Teale

#28. Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Edwin Way Teale

#29. Love of the head has doubtless more intelligence than true love, but it only has moments of enthusiasm. It knows itself too well, it sits in judgement on itself incessantly; far from distracting thought, it is made by sheer force of thought.

Stendhal

#30. 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.

Edwin Way Teale

#31. Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.

Sarah Monette

#32. A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

Edwin Way Teale

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

Edwin Way Teale

#34. It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

Edwin Way Teale

#35. Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Edwin Way Teale

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

Edwin Way Teale

#37. It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.

Edwin Way Teale

#38. For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Edwin Way Teale

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

Edwin Way Teale

#40. If I be just a page torn out of a book,
May I sail forever over the oceans blue,
Float over the treetops and the mountains too,
Drift across the valleys and the flowers look,
Until at last, I rest and kiss the morning dew.

Nancy B. Brewer