Did you ever take pencil and book to scribe down the sounds the wind makes as it sifts and soughs through the trees? Guy Murchie
Through woods and mountain passes
The winds, like anthems, roll.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
The humor of the wind was black and its roars and moans were bombast in the night, then it fell to a grey whisper... Franklin Russell
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame
the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran
The winds are full of words, sighings, warnings, threats, the noises, without doubt, of wandering powers, friendly or unfriendly beings. Lewis Spence
There is nothing more satisfying than to lie in bed at night, secure and warm, with a whistling wind outside. Claire Leighton
Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you... Rumi
The leaves lay like hands upon the ground.
When the wind rustles them, they applaud softly.
Laura E. Stevens
There was enough of a breeze to stir the waters into wrinkles. Karen Skowron
Something terrible. It is the wind. The wind; or rather that populace of Titans which we call the gale. The unseen multitude. India knew them as the Maroubs, Judea as the Keroubim, Greece as the Aquilones. They are the invisible winged creatures of the Infinite. Their blasts sweep over the earth. Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads.
The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.
John Muir
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. Hermann Hesse, Wanderings.
For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter. And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults. Charles Dickens, The Chimes
Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? Robert Frost, Bereft
The wind in a man's face makes him wise. John Ray
Wind, for instance, is not just sound. It is touch, smell, balance, temperature, direction, taste. Susan Chernak McElroy, All My Relations
There's a strange music in the stirring wind. Caroline Bowles
The wind is complex, but the air is one. Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea
Although the wind is very powerful and you can feel its presence, in and of
itself it cannot be seen. You know it is there by its effect on others. The
great trees, the grasses and waves on the sea bend with its force. Author Unknown
I have also seen what the wind looks like by watching it roll across wheat fields and meadows of tall grass, natural prairie grasses forming undulating land waves which never break. Keith C. Heidorn
Away out here they've got a name for rain and wind and fire.
The rain is Tess, the fire's Jo. They call the wind Maria.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, They Call The Wind Maria
The hound of the autumn wind is slow; he loves to bask in the heat and sleep. Peter MacArthur, "An Indian Wind Song
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine II
Perhaps the wind wails so in winter for the summer's dead; and all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries for what has been and is not.
. George Eliot
The winds rush, fly, swoop down, dwindle away, commence again; hover above, whistle, roar, and smile; they are frenzied, wanton, unbridled, or sinking at ease upon the raging waves. Their howlings have a harmony of their own. They make all the heavens sonorous. They blow in the cloud as in a trumpet; they sing through the infinite space with the mingled tones of clarions, horns, bugles, and trumpets-a sort of Promethean fanfare. Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea
The wind is complex, but the air is one. Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea
I have always maintained that if you looked closely enough you could see the wind -- the dim, hardly made-out, fine debris fleeing high in the air. Stewart Edward White
The reeds give
Way to the
Wind and give
The wind away A.R. Ammons, Small Song
If I would see the wind, I go out after a windy snowstorm. There is the track of the wind in the drifted snow, the way it went over a hummock or a rock. Snowdrifts are frozen motion of that most fluid of elements, the wind. Even the curl at the lip of a snowdrift is the curl of the wind as it was sucked back by the drift. Hal Borland, Beyond Your Doorstep.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. John Muir
Long ago I learned how to listen to the singing wind, and how to forget and how to hear the deep whine, Slapping and lapsing under the day blue and the night stars; Who, who are you? Who can ever forget listening to the wind go by, counting its money and throwing it away. Carl Sandburg, Wind Song
Gray fighting winter winds, come along on the tearing blizzard tails, the snouts of the hungry hunting storms, come fighting gray in winter. Carl Sandburg
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
The older you get the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face. Jack Nicklaus
I often sit and wish That I could be a kite up in the sky,
And ride upon the wind and go Which ever way I chanced to blow. Author Unknown
The only argument available with an East wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell
The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
John Muir
The wind in the trees at this time is not a single sound but a complex orchestral multitude. Castle Freeman Jr, Spring Snow
Let the reeds pander to the wayward wind, I am the mountain range That determines the course of the wind. Huang Guobin
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. Hal Borland
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, kisses the blushing leaf.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A wailing, rushing sound, which shook the walls as though a giant's hand were on them; then a hoarse roar, as if the sea had risen; then such a whirl and tumult that the air seemed mad; and then, with a lengthened howl, the waves of wind swept on.”
. — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, 1841
Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them: telling of their wanderings even by their scents alone. John Muir, The Mountains of California
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. The answer is blowin' in the wind. Bob Dylan
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