"Long before I ever saw the desert I……" — Joseph Wood Krutch
"Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena."
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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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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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The soul...is audible, not visible.
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they…
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After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the…
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no…
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul…
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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable…
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I hear God as an audible voice.
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Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present…
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity,…
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
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During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. … He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my…
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