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
new-year heart years
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.
long bird cockroaches
The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
ethics bases customs
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
nature men scarcity
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
demand way authority
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
spring winter ice
There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
wish february used
February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.
waiting endless given
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.
law fundamentals human-nature
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
life compassion animal
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?
cat eye kitten
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
years two needs
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
advertising court democratic
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
action justified humans
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.