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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.
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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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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