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

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

- 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

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

- Edwin Way Teale

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

- Edwin Way Teale

All things seem possible in May.

- Edwin Way Teale

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…

- Edwin Way Teale

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

- Edwin Way Teale

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