Joseph Wood Krutch – 11 Quotes

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11 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

 

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

– 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.

– 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.

– Joseph Wood Krutch


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

– Joseph Wood Krutch


Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

– Joseph Wood Krutch


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

– 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.

– 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.

– Joseph Wood Krutch


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

– 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.

– Joseph Wood Krutch


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

– Joseph Wood Krutch