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
cat animal personality
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
nature joy cooking
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
cities important needs
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.
loneliness solitude known
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
lonely nature adventure
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.
nature excuse accounts
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
technology population made
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
nature animal men
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.
home ideas spirit
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
flower men smell
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.
cat insomnia pet
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.
self environmental balance
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
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.