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Joseph Wood Krutch [1893-1970] American

Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest and as a critic of reductionistic science.

Environmental, Pet, Beauty, Finance, Food, Happiness, Inspirational, Knowledge, Nature

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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.		101
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.	Finance	102
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.	Beauty, Environmental, Food	103
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.	Pet	104
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.	Inspirational, Knowledge	105
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.	Nature	106
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.		107
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.	Environmental	108
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.		109
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.		110
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.	Pet	111
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.		112
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.	Happiness	113
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.		114
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.		115
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.		116
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.		117
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.		118

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