Ocupation: Author
Life: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Birthday: July 12
Death: May 6
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
source: Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds: The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision”, p.126, Camden House
topic: Summer, Believe, Science, Milkweed