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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.
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 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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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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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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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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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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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 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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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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