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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
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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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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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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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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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