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«Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bird, cockroach, Cockroaches, get along, The Bird, very well
«Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Living,
Nature
| Keywords:
burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, Sun rise, wither
«Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| About:
Custom
| Keywords:
at one time, conceivable, condemned, furnished, human action, justified, one time
«It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.»
«Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
calculator, calculators, commission, electronic, engineers, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes
«There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.»
«Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affectionate, ceremonial, exclusively, Good Life, The Good Life, traditional, warmed
«Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.»
«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.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
sportsman, The Works, vandal, vandals, wantonly
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