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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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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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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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