Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest and as a critic of reductionistic science.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.