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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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 wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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