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We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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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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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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