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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

“An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.”

Men Life Is Nature Good Things Abundance Scarcity Compatible Precarious

Book:The desert year

Source: The desert year

“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.”

People Ifs Made Nature Environment Mankind Environmental Developers Irreplaceable Vandals

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”

Ifs Ends Earth Joy Nature Environment Produce Cooking Environmental Permit Ecology Our Environment Natural Environment Nature And Environment World Environment Beauty Of The Earth Inspirational Environmental

Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”

Ifs World Self Whole Seems Nature One Thing Adventure Lonely Whole World Snow Sufficient Self Sufficient Snowflake Winter Snow

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.”

Men Humanity Nature Animal Industry Environmental Pet Animal Rights Animal Cruelty Save Mother Earth Pet Animals Sportsman Animal Abuse Kindness To Animals Vandals Abused Animals

Book:The Great Chain of Life

Source: The Great Chain of Life

“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

“Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.”

Long Made Science Nature Saws Mystery Connections Observation Desert Mystical

Book:The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation

Source: The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation

“The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.”

Self Science Left Nature Environment Balance Fame Rivers Environmental Extraordinary Our Environment Nature And Environment Earth And Nature Save The Environment Saving The Earth

Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

“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

“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

“Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.”

Earth Nature Creatures Blind Filled Fantastic Thirst Rotting

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

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

“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

“We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.”

Men Nature Community Alive Share Adventure Great Adventure

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

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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