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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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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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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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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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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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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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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