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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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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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Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.
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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 the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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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