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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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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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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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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 serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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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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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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