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“The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.”
Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.”
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
“As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.”
Source: More lives than one
Source: The desert year
“In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.”
Source: The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.
Source: The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.
Source: And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
Source: The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.
Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”
“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”
Source: And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines
“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
Source: The Great Chain of Life
“Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”
Source: The Modern Temper
“Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.”
Source: The Modern Temper
Source: The desert year
“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”
Source: And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines
“Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.”
Source: The Great Chain of Life
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
Source: If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature
Source: The Modern Temper
Source: The Modern Temper
Source: If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature
Source: The Modern Temper
Source: The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation
Source: The Great Chain of Life
“What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.”
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
Source: And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines
Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.”
Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.”
Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch