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Category: Joseph Wood Krutch

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

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

3 December 2020 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 and one thing only.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

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