"Outside a million windows, a million birds had sung as morning swept around the globe. Few men and few women were so glad that a new day had dawned as these birds seem to be.... We are likely to awake with an "Oh, dear!" on our lips; they with a "What fun!" in their beaks.""
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PantheistsEnvironmentalists from the United StatesTheatre criticsNaturalists from the United StatesPeople from Knoxville
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The Great Chain of Life (1956), Epilogue
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch (pronounced krootch) (November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970) was an American writer, critic, pantheist, and naturalist.
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