But our civilization is rapidly becoming one in which only two values are recognized: power and amusement.

—Joseph Wood Krutch. "The north rim world." The Grand Canyon: Today and All Its Yesterdays.

The pleasures of ignorance—at least when accompanied by curiosity—rival those of knowledge, and I get a certain pleasure in this new country by assuming that it is actually unexplored so that what I find has never been found before.

—Joseph Wood Krutch. "Desert Rain." The Desert Year.