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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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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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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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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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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 cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
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Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
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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 a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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 conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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