“Knight’s disdain for Thoreau was bottomless – ‘he had no deep insight into nature’…”— Michael Finkel Related Quotes “Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not.”— China Miéville “Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.”— E.M. Forster “Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead – from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.”— Charles Kingsley