“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.” DifferentHeardSubjectsCreaturesCatPetDelicateInsomniaKittenAilmentsFelineFunny CatCat DogPets CatsCat LoveInspirational CatCute CatKitty CatHerding CatsAlley Cats Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.” HumansTwoImportantSeemsAnimalFourCreaturesSixLegsPetInsectsSpidersStandpoint Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.” LongFactsAbleShareCreaturesGlobesSentimentalLiteral Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.” EarthNatureCreaturesBlindFilledFantasticThirstRotting Book:A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
“Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.” EnoughSeemsEyeScienceSexCreaturesNakedSufficientDistinctionInventorNaked Eyes Book:The Great Chain of Life Source: The Great Chain of Life
“When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.” MenWorldWellsSometimesDoubtHabitCreaturesBehaviorBehaveNo DoubtReasonableCreatures Of Habit Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
