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… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three… — 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
