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Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer known for his literary criticism and nature writing. His works covered a wide range of subjects, including literature, philosophy, and nature. Born on November 25, 1893, he passed away on May 22, 1970.

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Famous Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

“A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.”

Men Humanity Animal Accounts Bases Physics Rejects Humanist Chemistry Behaviour

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.”

Humans Nature Accounts Excuse Reasonable

Book:The Modern Temper

Source: The Modern Temper

“If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.”

Ifs Science Animal Higher Fit Survival Accounts Superb

Book:The Great Chain of Life

Source: The Great Chain of Life

“Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.”

Men World Science Religion Atheism Accounts Mythology

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.”

Art Real Literature Morality Accounts Rhetoric

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

About the Author

Born: November 25, 1893
Died: May 22, 1970
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 87

Books & Sources

The Modern TemperRelated source material

A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary CriticismRelated source material

The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood KrutchRelated source material

If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and NatureRelated source material

And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & MachinesRelated source material

The Great Chain of LifeRelated source material

The desert yearRelated source material

The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.Related source material

More lives than oneRelated source material

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