Quotes About Milkweed

Home, I whispered. is where the river flows humming through the willows. Home is milkweed in your hair, with hemlock moss your pillows. Home, if you could only know, is anyplace I see you --- it's in your heart and from the start I've known my home would be you. FROM BOOK _ZAZOO_ , p.21, Chapter 3

Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly swirled in furious but fragile storm-systems.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

Wisconsin schoolchildren collected 283,000 bags of milkweed fluff for use in life jackets during World War II. Traditionally, fibrous kapok had been used for this purpose, but that material became unavailable when the Japanese occupied Indonesia, where the tropical tree was mostly grown.