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).
