Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. 

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur and feathers is beyond my comprehension.

If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either.

The 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.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him a vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.