Books Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy,…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass…

— Joseph Wood Krutch