Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow. - Edwin Way Teale

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I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

Edwin Way Teale

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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All things seem possible in May.

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