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Joseph Wood Krutch

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born

November 25, 1893 in Knoxville, Tennessee, The United States

died

May 22, 1970

gender

male

genre

Outdoors & Nature, Biographies & Memoirs

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Joseph Wood Krutch (pronounced krootch) was an American writer, critic, and naturalist.

He worked as a professor at Columbia University from 1937 to 1953. Moving to Arizona in 1952, he wrote books about natural issues of ecology, the southwestern desert environment, and the natural history of the Grand Canyon, winning renown as a naturalist and conservationist. Krutch is possibly best known for A Desert Year, which won the John Burroughs Medal in 1954.

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Books by Joseph Wood Krutch

Average rating: 3.93 · 135 ratings · 21 reviews · 24 distinct works

	The Desert Year 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1952 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Voice Of The Desert, A Naturalist's Interpretation 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession (Harvest Books) 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1929	My rating:
	The Great Chain of Life 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1957 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Grand Canyon: Today And All Its Yesterdays 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Measure of Man: On Freedom, Human Values, Survival and the Modern Temper 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Henry David Thoreau 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Human Nature and the Human Condition 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	A Treasury Of Birdlore 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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― Joseph Wood Krutch

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“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”
― Joseph Wood Krutch

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“The world of poetry, mythology, and religion represents the world as a man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.”
― Joseph Wood Krutch