Joseph Wood
Joseph Wood
nature excuse accounts
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
sex eye naked
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.
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.
nature mean mind
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
home ideas spirit
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
technology population made
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
loneliness solitude known
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
art may logic
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.
lonely nature adventure
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
cities important needs
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.
nature joy cooking
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
cat animal personality
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
inspirational mother ignorance
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.