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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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 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 conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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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 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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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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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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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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