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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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The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
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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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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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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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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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 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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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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