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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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 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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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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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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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
Joseph Wood Krutch
