Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

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• Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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  Happiness, Gratitude, Laughter

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• It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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  Inspirational, Mother, Ignorance

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1971). “The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.”, William Morrow & Co

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• If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

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  Nature, Joy, Cooking

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

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  Technology, Population, Made

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• We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.

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  Cities, Important, Needs

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• Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

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  Atheism, Finance, Can Do

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”

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• The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

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  Nature, Home, Ideas

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

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  Animal, Men, Forget

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• Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

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  Bird, Missing, Cockroaches

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• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

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  Cat, Animal, Personality

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could Do Without" (1949)

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• If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

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  Nature, People, Environmental

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• When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

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  Nature, Animal, Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.148, University of Iowa Press

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• Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

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  Short Life, Men, Anxiety

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• To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Oneself

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• Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

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  Art, Science, May

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.

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  Running, Believe, Eye

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• To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

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  Nature, Mean, Mind

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.

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  Lying, Emotional, Space

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

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  Nature, Excuse, Accounts

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

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  Change, England, Serious

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could DoWithout" (1949)

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• A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

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  Moving, Book, Communication

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• The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

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  Lonely, Nature, Adventure

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• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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  Confidence, Art, Math

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

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  Demand, Way, Authority

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• As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

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  Men, Machines

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1962). “More lives than one”

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