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Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest and as a critic of reductionistic science. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. November 1893 – 22. May 1970
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Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.”

Joseph Wood Krutch

The Great Chain of Life (1956), Chapter 9 "The Vandal and the Sportsman" http://books.google.com/books?id=Ydc0cooCB6QC&lpg=PA146&q="when+a+man+wantonly+destroys+one+of+the+works+of+man+we+call+him+vandal+when+he+wantonly+destroys+one+of+the+works+of+god+we+call+him+sportsman"#v=onepage. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009, p. 148.

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