The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

by Michael Finkel

Nature, Knight clarified, is brutal. The weak do not survive, and neither do the strong. Life is a constant, merciless fight that everyone loses.

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life”

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see “the unfathomable stupidity of man.”

Indian writer Jiddu Krishnamurti has been quoted as saying, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”