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Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks…. But where, who can say, down the long stream of time, are our eroded days deposited?Edwin Way Teale
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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.Edwin Way Teale
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If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.Edwin Way Teale
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In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.Edwin Way Teale
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The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.Edwin Way Teale
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For the mind disturbed the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.Edwin Way Teale
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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.Edwin Way Teale
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Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.Edwin Way Teale
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.Edwin Way Teale
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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.Edwin Way Teale
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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.Edwin Way Teale
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Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.Edwin Way Teale
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.Edwin Way Teale