There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
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… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
