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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

“Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”

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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.”

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

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

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

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

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Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

“Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.”

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Book:The Modern Temper

Source: The Modern Temper

“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.”

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Book:The Great Chain of Life

Source: The Great Chain of Life

“Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.”

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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

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