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Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

1893–1970 United States

Joseph Wood Krutch (pronounced krootch) (November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970) was an American writer, critic, pantheist, and naturalist.

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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

The Twelve Seasons (1949)

The Wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

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

The Twelve Seasons (1949)

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

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

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.

Outside a million windows, a million birds had sung as morning swept around the globe. Few men and few women were so glad that a new day had dawned as these birds seem to be.... We are likely to awake with an "Oh, dear!" on our lips; they with a "What fun!" in their beaks."

Innocently sensual as a faun, and quite as ignorant of the fact that the tortures of the flesh are no less real than its ecstasies, he had surrendered himself to love only to ‘awake and find how bitter an awakening can be. And his tragedy was not one which could resolve itself in any traditional way.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Wood Krutch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.