Respons 3

Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 33

“Nature never makes haste; her system revolves at an even pace.”

Thoreau states that nature is calculated and that it will not speed up or slow. This is true for if one were to observe the sun you would notice the time the sun rises and sets differ depending on the time of the year but at the end of every year the sun reset it’s self and starts over it's annual retune. When the word revolves is used in this quote Thoreau might be eluding to the sun, for that is what makes the seasons and days change. Since the earth revolves around the sun, nature must revolve around it too. Since the earth revolves at an even pace around the sun nature must do the same. Thus since the revolutions of the earth around the sun never speed up, hence nature has no haste. Natures pace can also be seen when one notices that plants die and then later come back to life.