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 More Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch More Quotes From Joseph Wood Krutch Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. Joseph Wood Krutch gratitudelaughterhappiness It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. Joseph Wood Krutch ignorancemotherinspirational If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. Joseph Wood Krutch cookingnaturejoy Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. Joseph Wood Krutch populationtechnologymade 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 importantcitiesneeds Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch financeatheismcan-do The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit. Joseph Wood Krutch naturehomeideas Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane. Joseph Wood Krutch animalforgetmen 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 environmentalnaturepeople Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Joseph Wood Krutch cockroachesmissingbird Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch catpersonalityanimal 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 natureanimalmen Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. Joseph Wood Krutch short-lifeanxietymen 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 mayscienceart 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 eyerunningbelieve 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 naturemindmean 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 emotionalspacelying Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses. Joseph Wood Krutch accountsexcusenature The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. Joseph Wood Krutch englandseriouschange A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed. Joseph Wood Krutch communicationbookmoving
