Joseph Wood Krutch - Human Quotes

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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

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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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The Wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

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Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as well as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

Joseph Wood Krutch