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Henry David Thoreau Quotes:

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.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

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