If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses. — 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
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the… — 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
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context 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
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
