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
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.
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.
war men want
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
men our-society paradox
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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.
short-life men anxiety
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
science technology men
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.
men long enough
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
believe men tragedy
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
war men ill-will
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
men dangerous susceptible
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
nature men scarcity
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.