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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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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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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 human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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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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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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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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