| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61071 |
| QUOTATION: | Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry David Thoreau (18171862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 353, Houghton Mifflin (1906). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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