Its ironic that he said this since he spent so much time at Walden Pond observing creation and how it functioned. Much of his more practical statements seemed to have stemmed from something he had no control over.

We live in times of moral cowards, unwilling to look full on into the train wreck about to happen to them. If they would only look, they would realize that safety is as simple as ackowledging the train and driving their parked car off the tracks.