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• The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

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  Appreciate, Mind, Firsts

  Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.268, University of Iowa Press

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• Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

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  Journey, Men, Hiking

  Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.126, University of Iowa Press

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• Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.

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  Nature, Science, Long

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1955). “The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation”, National Academies

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• 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.

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  Moving, Book, Communication

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• To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

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  Country, Integrity, Self

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1964). “If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature”

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• In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

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  Running, Long, Delusion

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

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• 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.

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  Life, Sun, Consciousness

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• Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

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  Nature, Excuse, Accounts

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Lying, Emotional, Space

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• 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.

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  Science, Animal, Survival

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

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• 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.

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  Nature, Animal, Men

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

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• There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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  Men, Dangerous, Susceptible

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• Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

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  Gratitude, Vices, Kind

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• If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

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  Waiting, Given, Endless

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• Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

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  Science, Men, Religion

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• The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

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  Nature, Science, Self

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

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  Life, Opportunity, Persistent

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.2, University of Iowa Press

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• 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.

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  Children, Study, Sometimes

  If You Don't Mind My Saying 'Whom Do We Picket Tonight?'

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• We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

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  Past, Judging, Our Society

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”

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• 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.

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  Art, Science, May

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• 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.

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  Animal, Two, Pet

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

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• As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

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  Men, Machines

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1962). “More lives than one”

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• 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.

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  Nature, Mean, Mind

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

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  Action, Justified, Humans

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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