Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

I take pride in staying in the game.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

Life will find a way.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.

As long as there's life, there's hope.