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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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“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.”

Humans Children Sometimes Turns Human Beings Study Easier Guidance Decent Institute Brat

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

“The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.”

Humans Ideas Home Spirit Nature Environmental Permanent Wilderness Human Spirit Nature And Environment

Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

Source: The Best Nature Writing of 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.”

Humans Two Important Seems Animal Four Creatures Six Legs Pet Insects Spiders Standpoint

Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

“The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.”

Men Humans Matter Facts Nature Human Beings Air Flower Waste Bird Smell Desert Scent Sweetness Bugs Jungle Petals

Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

“To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.”

Mind Humans Mean Has Beens Ends Able Nature Study Human Mind Fertile Ingenious Devising Devising Means

Book:The Modern Temper

Source: The Modern Temper

“Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.”

Love Humans Facts Imagination Love Is Creation Human Imagination

Book:The Modern Temper

Source: The Modern Temper

“The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.”

Mind Firsts Humans Seeing Appreciate Chaos Complexity Human Mind

Book:The desert year

Source: The desert year

“There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.”

Humans Action Customs One Time Justified Human Actions

Book:A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism

Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism

“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.”

Humans Law Human Nature Fundamentals Possession

Book:If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature

Source: If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature

About the Author

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

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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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