"August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied." — Joseph Wood Krutch
"August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied."
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81 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself…
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face…
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened…
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any,…
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that…
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing…
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or…
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More August Quotes
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn…
— Garth Brooks
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001…
— Tom Allen
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I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth…
— Trey Anastasio
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of…
— J. William Fulbright
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around…
— Bill McKibben
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
— Natalie Babbitt
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
— Iannis Xenakis
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
— Horace Walpole
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into…
— Jonathan Swift
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