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
life compassion animal
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?
cat animal mind
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.
science animal fit
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.
animal rocks community
And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.
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.
men animal forget
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
nature animal men
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.
cat animal personality
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
men doubt world
When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
nature adventure men
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.
mars way ancient
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
action justified humans
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
thoughtful men confusion
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
advertising court democratic
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.