There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men. Joseph Wood Krutch More Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch More Quotes From Joseph Wood Krutch Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. Joseph Wood Krutch gratitude laughter happiness It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. Joseph Wood Krutch ignorance mother inspirational If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. Joseph Wood Krutch cooking nature joy Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. Joseph Wood Krutch population technology made 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. Joseph Wood Krutch important cities needs Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch finance atheism can-do The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit. Joseph Wood Krutch nature home ideas Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane. Joseph Wood Krutch animal forget men 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 environmental nature people Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Joseph Wood Krutch cockroaches missing bird Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch cat personality animal 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 nature animal men Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. Joseph Wood Krutch short-life anxiety men 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. Joseph Wood Krutch oneself solitude loneliness 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. Joseph Wood Krutch may science art Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination. Joseph Wood Krutch eye running believe 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. Joseph Wood Krutch nature mind mean The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create. Joseph Wood Krutch emotional space lying Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses. Joseph Wood Krutch accounts excuse nature The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. Joseph Wood Krutch england serious change
