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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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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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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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