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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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More quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
Joseph Wood Krutch
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
Joseph Wood Krutch
In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
