Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable
Joseph Wood Krutch
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Joseph Wood Krutch
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Joseph Wood Krutch
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch