Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Animal, Personality

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could Do Without" (1949)

• 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

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.148, University of Iowa Press

• To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Animal, Mind

• Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Two, Pet

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

• How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Life, Compassion, Animal

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And even if you do: essays on man, manners & machines”

• Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Men, Forget

• A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Men, Humanity

• And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Rocks, Missing

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1971). “The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.”, William Morrow & Co

• If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Animal, Survival

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.22, University of Iowa Press

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