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
wish february used
February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.
demand way authority
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
men animal humanity
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
long bird cockroaches
The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
long able facts
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.
change england serious
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
moving book communication
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
nature people environmental
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
running long delusion
In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
flower men smell
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.
self environmental balance
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
bird missing cockroaches
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
cat insomnia pet
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
running believe eye
Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.