| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18604 |
| QUOTATION: | Henry David Thoreau and Charles Darwin form both a spectacular comparison and contrast. Both Thoreau and Darwin were voyagers. One confined himself to the ever widening ripples on a pond until they embraced infinity. The other went around the world and remained for the rest of his life a meditative recluse in an old Victorian house in the English countryside.... Both men were insatiable readers, and composers of works not completely published in their individual lifetimes. Both achieved a passionate satisfaction out of their association with wilderness. Each in his individual way has profoundly influenced the lives of generations that followed him. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), U.S. anthropologist, educator. The Unexpected Universe, ch. 6, Harcourt Brace (1969). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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