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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.
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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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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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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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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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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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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 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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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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