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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.
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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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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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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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 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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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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