Circle of the Seasons Quotes

“It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.”
― Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“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, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“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, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.”
― Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.”
― Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.”
― Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“«من الأمور السيئة أخلاقيًا ألا يهتم المرء بما إذا كان شيء ما صحيحًا أم غير ذلك طالما يجعلنا نحس أننا على ما يرام تمامًا، مثل عدم اهتمامنا بالكيفية التي نحصل بها على المال طالما حصلنا عليه بالفعل»”
― Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year