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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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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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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
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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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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 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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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.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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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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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 grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
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