Joseph Wood Krutch

• "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.“
• "If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.“
• "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.“
• "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.“
• "Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.“
• "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.“
• "If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.“
• "Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.“
• "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.“
• "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.“
• "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.“
• "What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.“

Other authors you might be
interested in

Joe Theismann

Kip Winger

Gunter Grass

Queen Victoria

Campbell Scott

Malcolm Gladwell

Edmund Spenser

Renata Adler

Kate Clinton




Browse all authors