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Joseph Wood Krutch (/kruːtʃ/; November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970) was an American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest and as a critic of reductionistic science.[further explanation needed]

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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Belong, Cat, Cats, Eye, Kitten, Things

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Animal, Demonstrated, Fitness, Science, Survival

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Brought, Change, England, Puritanism, Serious

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Brat, Children, Institute, Sometimes, Study

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

Art, Science, May, Confidence, Logic

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February. . . . Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a. m. of the calendar.

England, Long Ago, Lost, Spring, Three, Winter

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny. . . though. . . I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

Animal, Cat, Funny, Like, Mind, Reminded

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

Animal, Men, Forget, Whenever, Make

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Believe, Men, Tragedy, God, Man, Writer

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

Beauty, Cooking, Food, Joy, Nature, Produce

We have not merely escaped from something but into something. . . We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

Nature, Adventure, Men, Alive, Man

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Calm, Civilization, Civilizations, Philosophical, Play, Sense

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Art, Confidence, Logic, Math

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

Action, Conceivable, Human, Humans, Justified

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Attitude, Capable, Looking, Rare Moments, Seeing, Self Esteem

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.

Dye, Flower, Men, Nature, Nobody, Waft

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.

Crueler, Faces, Facts, Sex, Social

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Authority, Consequences, Demand, Involve, Way

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?

Animal, Bloody, Compassion, Feathers, Life, Take

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.

Lonely, Nature, Adventure, Composed, Prefer

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