"The flowers never waste their sweetness on the……" — 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 it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents."
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Joseph Wood Krutch
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81 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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