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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?
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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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 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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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