"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."

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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

“I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.”

Source : Store Days: Documents from the Store (1961)
“I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.”
“Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.”
“You can organize elections any day, even tomorrow. But what will be the result of chaotic elections? More chaos!”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”
“I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.”
“Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.”

Source : Recalled on his death,7 Sep 1951, and quoted in the Smithsonian, Apr1 988.
“The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.”

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