Joseph Wood Krutch - Life Quotes

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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

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 of fur or feathers?

Joseph Wood Krutch

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The most important reason why there are so many gaps in the available life histories of even the commoner animals is less the perversity of professors than the fact that there are an awful lot of these common creatures and that actually to follow their lives from day to day is a very difficult time-consuming task.

Joseph Wood Krutch

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

Joseph Wood Krutch