| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 58257 |
| QUOTATION: | We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always a crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “A Walk to Wachusett” (1843), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 151, Houghton Mifflin (1906). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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