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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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“The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.”

Mind May Feelings Spirit Lying Desire Space Emotion Emotional Cold Paradise Leap Frightened Bowls Immensity Elation Inverted

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

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

“To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.”

Mind Animal Too Much Members Cat Kingdoms Animal Kingdom

Author: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

“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

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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