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And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines

Book by Joseph Wood Krutch · 4 quotes · Animal, Animal Life, Atheism

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“Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?”