Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Life
• Opportunity
• Ingenious

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Confidence
• Wrong
• Logic

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Security
• Without
• Have

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Men
• Woman
• Dangerous

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Solitude
• Known
• Oneself

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Action
• Justified
• Condemned

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Kind
• Happiness
• Gratitude

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Nature
• Human
• Excuses

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Spirit
• Wilderness
• Homes

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Technology
• Make
• Populations

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

• Earth
• Food
• Produce