Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutchwas an American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest and as a critic of reductionistic science...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth25 November 1893
CountryUnited States of America
summer august slumber
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
two important legs
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.
men our-society paradox
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
cat eye kitten
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
men self mountain
Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
science men religion
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.
loyalty good-life passion
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
children study sometimes
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.
atheism facts can-do
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
confidence art math
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
self-esteem rare-moments seeing
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
beauty beautiful flower
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?
life sun consciousness
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
life opportunity persistent
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.