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

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Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

Joseph Wood Krutch

#Home Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.”
“Almost every time i saw you, you were with him. But one day, you walked up to the building alone. I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and i waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you look pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.' That was the last straw. I prayed you 'd never come to a session, and not with him. I didn't want you to know i was the tutor.”
“The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.”
“And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.”
“Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.”
“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.”
“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.”
“Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if youâ€™ve decided beforehand it canâ€™t be done.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2014). “Think Like a Freak: Secrets of the Rogue Economist”, p.47, Penguin UK

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