The best Quotes by Edwin Way Teale

The best Quotes by Edwin Way Teale

Edwin Way Teale (June 2, 1899 - October 18, 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer and writer.

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring.

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Spring November

Our spirits need simple things, the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

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

Nature & Environment

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

Autumn & Fall Change

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

The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.

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The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Denahi in Brother Bear

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Spring Change Magic

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example, you're walking along minding your own business, you're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of the sudden, you run smack into a pretty face. You begin to get weak in the knees, your head's in a whirl! And then you feel light as feather, and before you know it you're walking on air! And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop! And you completely lose your head!

Friend Owl in Bambi

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Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.

Walt Disney

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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

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I soared above the song birds
And never heard them sing
I lived my life in winter
And then you brought the spring

Randall Wallace in Pearl Harbor

By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.

Neil Gaiman

There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.

Korean Saying

Spring Friendship Winter

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Cyril Connolly

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November is a gentle reminder for not having done a single thing from your new year resolution for ten months and not doing any for another two.

Nobody is perfect, but people born in November almost get there.

November's sky is chill and drear,
November's leaf is red and sear.

Walter Scott

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red)

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Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!

Flik in A Bug's Life

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Nature & Environment Creation Trees Rain

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

Lula da Silva

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

Arvel Skeen in Star Wars: Andor - Season 1 Episode 5

So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.

Albert Einstein

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Forests are the world's air-conditioning system - the lungs of the planet - and we are on the verge of switching it off.

King Charles III

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Chen Shui-bian

What I want is for the humans and the forest to live in peace!

Prince Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke

What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Nature & Environment

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Nature & Environment

Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature & Environment

We are not to tell Nature what she's gotta be! She's clever. She's always got better imagination than we have.

Richard Feynman

Nature & Environment

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

Rudolfo Anaya

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

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By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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Autumn & Fall September

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning.

Truman Capote in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.

Celestia Ludenberg in Danganronpa

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

Simba: "Looks like the winds are changing."
Rafiki: "Change is good."
Simba: "Yeah, but it's not easy."

Simba in The Lion King

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Darlin', "forever" is a long, long time and time has a way of changin' things.

Big Mama in The Fox and the Hound

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The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

John F. Kerry

I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

Will Livingston in The Last of Us - Season 1 Episode 4

Take it from me, buddy: It's darkest just before the dawn.

Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad - Season 5 Episode 5

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Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

Sun Sunrise Sunset

May is a gentle reminder for not having done a single thing from your new year resolution for four months and not doing any for the next eight.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Thomas Malory

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Hal Borland

Anyone else got the feeling that April lasted exactly three days?

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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