Edwin Way Teale Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
June 2, 1899 – October, 18, 1980.

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.

Also known as Naturalist, Photographer

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

Edwin Way Teale
- Mind
- Nature
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
- Live
- Respect
- Wish

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
- People
- World
- Suffering
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

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

Edwin Way Teale
- Life
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Edwin Way Teale
- Nature
- Death
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

Edwin Way Teale
- Time
- Great
- May