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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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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