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Edwin Way Teale

Edwin Way Teale (June 2, 1899 – October 18, 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930 - 1980. He is perhaps best known for his series The American Seasons, four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America following the changing seasons.

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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, Smell, Trees

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.

Long, Men, Right, Salt, Stars

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

Bites, Enthusiasm, Heart, Loses, Success, Taken

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.

Crowds, Learn, Noncommittal, Secret, Shy, Visit

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

Fading, Life, Long, Stone

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

Noise, Evolve, Needers, Endurers, Evolving

It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.

Bad, Care, Morally, True

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

Men, Half, Half Life, Lives, Bluebird

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

Nature, Destruction, Transmutation

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.

Bird, Together, Population, Birds, Regiments, Association

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.

Autumn, Fall, Frost, See, Summer, Thick

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

Spring, World, May, Season, Favorite

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.

Country, Land, Men, Road, Wild, Wishes

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.

Animal, Baby, Love Life, Normal, Respect, Wild

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.

Act, Democracy, Fighting, Home, Self, Wildflower

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

Distance, Freedom, Illusion, Surcease, Worries, Worry

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.

Birth, Days, Length, Length Of Life, Space, Strangely

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.

Care, Feel Good, Good, Long, Science

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, Seen, Represent

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, Men, Synthetic, Night, City

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