Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
Joseph Wood KrutchBoth the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
Joseph Wood KrutchA humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
Joseph Wood KrutchThe flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.
Joseph Wood Krutch