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

- Edwin Way Teale

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

- 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

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

- 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

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

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

- Edwin Way Teale