Joseph Wood Krutch

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

“I have drawn from books written by learned experts and also upon my observation of living creatures in whom I have long…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are.…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“For a real glimpse into an almost vanished world, one should look...at a scorpion who so obviously has no business lingering into…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as,…

— Joseph Wood Krutch