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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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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 cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
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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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