"The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint."

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Source : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

Edwin Way Teale

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“First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.”
“I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?”
“Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.”
“Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.”
“Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.”

Source : "Paradigms Lost", interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Spring 1995.
“wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!”
“I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.”
“I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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