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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.
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 wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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