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Joseph Wood Krutch

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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.


— Joseph Wood Krutch


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


— Joseph Wood Krutch


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


— Joseph Wood Krutch


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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.


— Joseph Wood Krutch


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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


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


— Joseph Wood Krutch


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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


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About Joseph Wood Krutch

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Did you know about Joseph Wood Krutch?

Born in Knoxville Tennessee he initially studied at the University of Tennessee and received a masters degree and Ph. D. After moving to Arizona in 1952 he wrote books about natural issues of ecology the southwestern desert environment and the natural history of the Grand Canyon winning renown as a naturalist and conservationist.

He died in Tucson at age 76 from colon cancer in 1970. Afterwards he worked as teacher at Brooklyn Polytechnic.

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