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Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Security, You, Without

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.

Good, Cats, Never

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Cats, Want, You

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Beauty, Environmental, Joy

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.

Time, World, Lonely

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Knowledge, Mother, Ignorance

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

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.

science, technology

Joseph Wood Krutch

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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 forms and ceremonies.

habit, tradition