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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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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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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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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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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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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
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