We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 CE-1862 CE), Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher; best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience",an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.