Books Quote by Michael Finkel Download Open image ““Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...”” — Michael Finkel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Nature Thoreau Wisdom
“... I was disturbed by how many of my classmates disliked Thoreau, railed against him even, as if he (who claimed never to have… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. HENRY DAVID THOREAU” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Thoreau has been my companion for some days past, it having struck me as more appropriate to bring him out to a pond than… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Human nature has no bottom. It is as deep and mysterious as the mind of God.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He learned that some things that seemed to make little sense were senseless only from his point of view, not necessarily from someone else's… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Knighthood. Was he even worthy? Just a little while ago, he’d have answered yes without a doubt, but now, facing the cross and his… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that “no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The first great literary work about solitude, the Tao Te Ching, was written in ancient China, likely in the sixth century B.C., by a… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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