Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutchwas an American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest and as a critic of reductionistic science...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth25 November 1893
CountryUnited States of America
self environmental balance
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
moving book communication
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.
nature people environmental
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
long able facts
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.
nature rotting earth
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
nature mean mind
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.
love imagination facts
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
gratitude vices kind
Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.
science men religion
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.
science animal fit
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.
long desert saws
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.
life opportunity persistent
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
life sun consciousness
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.
beauty beautiful flower
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?