The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. Edwin Way Teale More Quotes by Edwin Way Teale More Quotes From Edwin Way Teale Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise. Edwin Way Teale evolve noise A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives. Edwin Way Teale half-life half men How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring! Edwin Way Teale spring time knowledge It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high. Edwin Way Teale philosophical race class Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area. Edwin Way Teale nature land home 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 feel-good science long The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint. Edwin Way Teale wild-beauty fighting self The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. Edwin Way Teale taken success heart 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 sunshine dark night Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. Edwin Way Teale illusion distance worry How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers. Edwin Way Teale nature tree beautiful In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. Edwin Way Teale transmutation destruction nature 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 autumn time fall As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives. Edwin Way Teale population together bird I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun. Edwin Way Teale autumn summer fall 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 length-of-life birth space 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 numbers war two Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head. Edwin Way Teale garden eye feet 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 mean believe people You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory! Edwin Way Teale understanding answers years
