Joseph Wood Krutch (born in Knoxville, Tennessee, died in Tucson) was a writer, literary movie critic and also conservationist.
He originally examined at the University of Tennessee, as well as his Ph.D. at Columbia University. After serving in the Navy in 1918, circumnavigated Europe for a year with his buddy Mark Van Doren. Then he showed at Brooklyn Polytechnic center.
His very first book of significance was a research of Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar Allan Poe: A Study in Genius (1926), originally cut psychologistic. There was dramatization doubter for The Nation and composed several publications, accomplishing prestige for job crucial to the environmental influence of science and also technology: The Modern Temper (1929). He also composed biographies of Samuel Johnson and also Henry David Thoreau in the 40's, plus a lots books of literary biographies as well as theatrical background. Throughout his life, wrote 35 books in overall.
He worked as a professor at Columbia University from 1937 to 1953.
He moved to Arizona in 1952, where he composed publications on ecology, on the southwest desert setting and also the natural history of the Grand Canyon, accomplishing fame as a naturalist as well as preservationist. His writings from this period express a longing for a less complex life and contemplative. "If you drive a car at 120 kilometres/ h, you can refrain from doing anything however maintain the beast in control," he wrote.
A lot of the manuscripts protected in the Krutch University of Arizona, where, in 1980, got its name from a cactus garden in his honor: Joseph Wood Krutch Cactus Garden.
Our collection contains 18 quotes who is written / told by Joseph, under the main topics: Environmental - Pet.
"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 form and ceremonies"
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want"
"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"
"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most"
"Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying"
"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"
"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants"
"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"
"There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men"
"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"
"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February"
"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without"
"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"
"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"
"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder"
"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"
