Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch


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

Died
May 22, 1970

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Works of American critic, naturalist, and writer Joseph Wood Krutch include The Modern Temper (1929) and The Measure of Man (1954).

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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The Desert Year

4.04 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1952 — 27 editions
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Bird Songs in Literature: B...

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3.44 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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The Voice of the Desert, a ...

4.21 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1955 — 37 editions
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The Forgotten Peninsula: A ...

3.71 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1961 — 17 editions
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The Modern Temper: A Study ...

3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1929 — 17 editions
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The Great Chain of Life

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1957 — 18 editions
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Grand Canyon: Today and All...

3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1958 — 16 editions
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The Best Nature Writing

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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1970 — 12 editions
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Twelve Seasons

4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings2 editions
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Measure of Man on Freedom, ...

3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1953 — 20 editions
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“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. ”
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“As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ”
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“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”
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