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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.
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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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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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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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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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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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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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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