"The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is……" — Joseph Wood Krutch
"The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit."
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81 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch has 81 quotes on this site.
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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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