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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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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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.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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