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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
Biographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Naturalist
Theatre Critic
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Knoxville
Tennessee
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Purring
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Kitten
Cats
Belong
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Eye

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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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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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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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 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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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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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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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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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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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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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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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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