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Joseph Wood Krutch
American
Environmentalist
About the author
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Wonder
#Ignorance
#Mother
#Knowledge
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Study
#Being
#Guidance
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#God
#Man
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#War
#Man
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Science
#Fact
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Men
#Woman
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Time
#World
#Self
#Lonely
#Snow
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#EnglFebruary
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Security
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Living
#Consciousness
#Sun
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Time
#Trying
#Losing
#Meaning
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Cats
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Want
#Harm
#Cats
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Life
#People
#Grace
#Loyalty
#Desire
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Happiness
#Gratitude
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#God
#People
#Mankind
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch,
American
Environmentalist
#Will
#Food
#End
#Earth
#Beauty
#Joy