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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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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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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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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.
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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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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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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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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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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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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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