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  • 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 (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

    Success   Taken   Heart  
  • How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!

    Time   Spring   Knowledge  
    Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • 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.

    Eye   Garden   Feet  
  • 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 (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

    Nature   Mind   Dawn  
    Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • 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.

    Stars   Men   Long  
  • 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 (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • 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.

    Secret   Shy   Crowds  
    Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.

    Spring   World   May  
    Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”
  • 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.

    War   Two   Numbers  
  • For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

    Pace   Trekking   Snail  
    Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

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

    Bird   Tree   Dollars  
  • Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

    Life   Simple   Greed  
    Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”
  • 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.

    Sunshine   Dark   Night  
    Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead
  • If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

    Men   Care   Take Care  
    Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • 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.

    Believe   Mean   People  
  • 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.

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

    Morning   Years   Tree  
  • The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north.

    Spring   Men   Average  
    Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead
  • 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 (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

    Funny   Beauty   Nature  
    Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • 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.

    Time   Fall   Autumn  
    Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

    Moving   Space   Scarcity  
    Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead
  • A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

    Men   Half   Half Life  
  • Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

    Nature   Rain   Simple  
  • If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

    Spiritual   Song   Lonely  
  • Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

    Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
  • 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 (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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