24.11.09

___ faith in a seed ___

We were told by a farmer here, that seeds can stay
in the ground forever . . ." 'til a fire or somethin',"
he said: "wakes them up.... & pop, they come out"
We always wanted to share this book with you . . .
now is a good time . . .mellow weather out there :
are seeds asleep? Thoreau knows all the answers . . .

" Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings." - Henry David Thoreau-

was written in 1860 after many tramps through the Concord woods. He went to the woods in Massachusetts

as a naturalist, rather than a writer or thinker; his purpose was to disprove the theory, popular at the time,

that plants and trees sprang spontaneously from the ground. . . "