Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Edwin Way Teale's Popular Quotes

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

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

- Edwin Way Teale

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

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

- 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

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

- Edwin Way Teale

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

- Edwin Way Teale

All things seem possible in May.

- Edwin Way Teale