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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 human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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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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