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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.
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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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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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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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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