97 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

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.

We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man’s existence.

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

Up up and quit your books’ is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions – as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable.