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Type: Environmentalist Quotes Category: American Environmentalist Quotes Date of Birth: November 25, 1893 Date of Death: May 22, 1970 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Joseph Wood Krutch Related Authors: David R. Brower Garrett Hardin Donella Meadows John Muir Luther Burbank Aldo Leopold William Bartram |
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Joseph Wood Krutch Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Joseph Wood Krutch Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. Joseph Wood Krutch Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. Joseph Wood Krutch Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. Joseph Wood Krutch Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. Joseph Wood Krutch 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 If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. Joseph Wood Krutch It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. Joseph Wood Krutch 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. Joseph Wood Krutch 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. Joseph Wood Krutch Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. Joseph Wood Krutch The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. Joseph Wood Krutch There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men. Joseph Wood Krutch Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. Joseph Wood Krutch What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. Joseph Wood Krutch 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 |
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