Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?
Joseph Wood KrutchThe rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
Joseph Wood KrutchThe typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
Joseph Wood KrutchTo be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.
Joseph Wood Krutch