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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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 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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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 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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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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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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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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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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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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