Quotes by : Michael Finkel

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point....

In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone....

Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first....

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit....

There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.

He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the....

Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned.....

I read. That's my form of travel.

He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.