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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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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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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.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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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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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.
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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 we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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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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