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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.
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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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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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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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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 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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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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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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