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
Joseph Wood Krutch quotes about
technology population made
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
self-esteem rare-moments seeing
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
short-life men anxiety
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
ethics bases customs
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
mars way ancient
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
thoughtful men confusion
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.