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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• The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

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  Attitude, Self Esteem, Rare Moments

  Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.48, University of Iowa Press

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

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  Technology, Population, Made

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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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• In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

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  Cat, Eye, Kitten

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

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  Spring, Winter, Long Ago

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, p. 169, 1949.

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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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• Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.

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  Nature, Science, Long

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1955). “The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation”, National Academies

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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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• 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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• Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

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  Cat, Insomnia, Pet

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, 1949.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

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  Nature, Flower, Men

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

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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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• It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.

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  Long, Able, Facts

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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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• True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

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  Drama, Character, Greatness

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