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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

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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Literary Critic
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Knoxville
Tennessee
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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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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.
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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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