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Michael Finkel Quote: “He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber.”

101. “He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “He takes only works that stir him emotionally, and seldom the most valuable piece in a place. He feels no remorse when he steals because museums, in his deviant view, are really just prisons for art.”

102. “He takes only works that stir him emotionally, and seldom the most valuable piece in a place. He feels no remorse when he steals because museums, in his deviant view, are really just prisons for art.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Get enough sleep,” he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn’t be saying any more. This was what he’d learned. I accepted it as truth.”

103. “Get enough sleep,” he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn’t be saying any more. This was what he’d learned. I accepted it as truth.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Knight, still furious about the image thirty years later, was a man acutely attuned to the ravages of shame. Had he done something shameful before he’d fled to the forest? He insisted that he had not.”

104. “Knight, still furious about the image thirty years later, was a man acutely attuned to the ravages of shame. Had he done something shameful before he’d fled to the forest? He insisted that he had not.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Everything moves at light speed, without rest. “It’s too loud. Too colorful. The lack of aesthetics. The crudeness. The inanities. The trivia. The inappropriate choices of aspirations and goals.”

105. “Everything moves at light speed, without rest. “It’s too loud. Too colorful. The lack of aesthetics. The crudeness. The inanities. The trivia. The inappropriate choices of aspirations and goals.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “As an adult, he feels the same about cell phones, email, and social media. Why make it easier to be bothered by others?”

106. “As an adult, he feels the same about cell phones, email, and social media. Why make it easier to be bothered by others?”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Christopher Knight, you could argue, is the most solitary known person in all of human history.”

107. “Christopher Knight, you could argue, is the most solitary known person in all of human history.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Knight’s disdain for Thoreau was bottomless – ‘he had no deep insight into nature’...”

108. “Knight’s disdain for Thoreau was bottomless – ‘he had no deep insight into nature’...”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “He does not care if people fail to understand what he did in the woods. He didn’t do it for us to understand.”

109. “He does not care if people fail to understand what he did in the woods. He didn’t do it for us to understand.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “It isn’t action, he suspects, that usually lands a thief in prison. It’s hesitation.”

110. “It isn’t action, he suspects, that usually lands a thief in prison. It’s hesitation.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “He’d drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake’s top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. “I’d stretch out in the water, ” he said, “and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.”

111. “He’d drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake’s top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. “I’d stretch out in the water, ” he said, “and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “The judge, his counselors, and his therapist, says Knight, speak to him as though he’s a child. Every time he admitted he was struggling, they fed him platitudes. Knight rattles them off: “Oh, it’ll get better. Look on the bright side. The sun will come up tomorrow.” He grew tired of hearing them, so now he keeps quiet. He doesn’t blame anyone – “everyone’s doing their best,” he says in a way that can be construed as arrogant – but following their rules causes him to feel worse.”

112. “The judge, his counselors, and his therapist, says Knight, speak to him as though he’s a child. Every time he admitted he was struggling, they fed him platitudes. Knight rattles them off: “Oh, it’ll get better. Look on the bright side. The sun will come up tomorrow.” He grew tired of hearing them, so now he keeps quiet. He doesn’t blame anyone – “everyone’s doing their best,” he says in a way that can be construed as arrogant – but following their rules causes him to feel worse.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Knowing when not to take an item, however deflating, is mandatory for a thief expecting career longevity.”

113. “Knowing when not to take an item, however deflating, is mandatory for a thief expecting career longevity.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Some items had been in place for so long that the trees grew around them. A claw hammer was nearly swallowed by a tree trunk, impossible to remove, and Hughes said that this hammer, more than anything, made him realize how long Knight had lived there.”

114. “Some items had been in place for so long that the trees grew around them. A claw hammer was nearly swallowed by a tree trunk, impossible to remove, and Hughes said that this hammer, more than anything, made him realize how long Knight had lived there.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Virtually every natural feature in Maine, pond to peak, has a proper name, but Knight saw such titles as human impositions and preferred not to know them. He sought a purity to his retreat beyond all measure.”

115. “Virtually every natural feature in Maine, pond to peak, has a proper name, but Knight saw such titles as human impositions and preferred not to know them. He sought a purity to his retreat beyond all measure.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure at all. It’s the product of leisure time. Our big brains, the most complex instruments known in the universe, have been released from the vigilance of evading predators and seeking sustenance, permitting our imagination to gambol and explore, to dream while awake, to share visions of God. Art signals our freedom. It exists because we’ve won the evolutionary war.”

116. “Art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure at all. It’s the product of leisure time. Our big brains, the most complex instruments known in the universe, have been released from the vigilance of evading predators and seeking sustenance, permitting our imagination to gambol and explore, to dream while awake, to share visions of God. Art signals our freedom. It exists because we’ve won the evolutionary war.”

— Michael Finkel

Michael Finkel Quote: “Japanese researchers at Chiba University found that a daily fifteen-minute walk in the woods caused significant decreases in cortisol, along with a modest drop in blood pressure and heart rate.”

117. “Japanese researchers at Chiba University found that a daily fifteen-minute walk in the woods caused significant decreases in cortisol, along with a modest drop in blood pressure and heart rate.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated – the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.”

118. “When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated – the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.”

— Michael Finkel

Michael Finkel Quote: “Across much of Chinese history, it was customary to protest a corrupt emperor by leaving society and moving into the mountainous interior of the country. People who withdrew often came from the upper classes and were highly educated. Hermit.”

119. “Across much of Chinese history, it was customary to protest a corrupt emperor by leaving society and moving into the mountainous interior of the country. People who withdrew often came from the upper classes and were highly educated. Hermit.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Beauty, to be unpoetic but precise, is in the medial orbital frontal cortex of the beholder.”

120. “Beauty, to be unpoetic but precise, is in the medial orbital frontal cortex of the beholder.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “Brazilian government provided him with a thirty-one-square-mile region of rain forest. The land is off-limits to everyone except this man.”

121. “Brazilian government provided him with a thirty-one-square-mile region of rain forest. The land is off-limits to everyone except this man.”

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Michael Finkel Quote: “We didn’t feel the need to communicate everything all the time,” Chris continued. “We’re not emotionally bleeding all over each other. We’re not touchy-feely.”

122. “We didn’t feel the need to communicate everything all the time,” Chris continued. “We’re not emotionally bleeding all over each other. We’re not touchy-feely.”

— Michael Finkel

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