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“Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.”

Men Years Generations Tree Wind Spring Rounds Blow Bud

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.”

Tree Wind Branches

Author:Ogden Nash

“Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.”

Might Language Tree Wind Blow Noise Thee Legends Barren

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

“Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?”

Knows World Mind Doe Whole Light Darkness Tree Wind Errors Whole World Enlightening Drifting

Author:Saint Augustine

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?”

“Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.”

Way Past Form Tree Effects Wind Shapes Encounters Our Past Your Past You Like It

Book:It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Source: It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life

“The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.”

Ifs Way Needs Happens Decision Company Leader Tree Wind

Author:Sean Parker

“The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.”

Beautiful Tree Wind Roots Stronger Deeper

Book:Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

“Our testimonies, like . . . trees, must be built on a sure foundation, deeply rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ, so that when the winds and rains come into our lives, as they surely will, we will be strong enough to weather the storms that rage about us.”

Enough Jesus Strong Christ Our Lives Tree Wind Jesus Christ Built Rain Foundation Storm Rage Weather Rooted Testimony Strong Enough Wind And Rain

Author:Sheldon F. Child

“Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can't see.”

Way Want I Can Night Waiting Talking Boys Tree Wind Window Breaths Evening Necks Skirts

Book:The House on Mango Street

Source: The House on Mango Street

“A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.”

“A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.”

Tree Wind Gentle Cracks Decree Triumphant Unyielding

Author:Laozi

“One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.”

Tree Wind Weak Overcoming Delusion

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.”

Passion Tree Wind Holy Wave Lust Awful Branches Fierce Lightning Thunder Roaring Thunder And Lightning Bare Branches

Book:A Life of One's Own

Source: A Life of One's Own

“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.”

Life Inspirational I Can Feelings Sun Tree Wind Indian Native Native American Babe Good Feeling

Author:Geronimo

“If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear that in the music in some way, you've wedded the two and your imagination takes off. To be able to hear that in music is really important.”

Ifs Way Two Important Able Night Reading Stars Imagination Tree Wind Music Is Rivers Wind Blowing

Author:Julie Andrews

“You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.”

Want Looks Doe Tree Wind Christmas Fats Jewelry Christmas Tree

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.”

Ifs Stills Stories Would Be Form Tree Wind Bird Storm Apples Sunshine Feds Ripe Petals Motherly

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

Knows Two Heaven Space Millions Know How Sun Tree Wind Miles Forests Wander Hypocrisy Wilderness Forests And Trees Wandering Around Arbor Day Two Trees

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.”

Men Inspirational Power Tree Wind Ambition Fortune Ambitious Blast My Ambition Ambitious Man

Book:A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published

Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published

“The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.”

Break Tree Wind Grew Elements Grew Up My Favorite Bullying Flexible Withstanding

Author:Pink

“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.”

Air Tree Wind Clouds Passing Passings Bows Passing By

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.”

Tree Wind Green Lions Preparing

Book:False Memory

Source: False Memory

“An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.”

Has Beens Hands Eye Next Perfect Taken Tree Wind Mets Summer Ordinary Breaths Forgotten Notebook Emeralds Summer Wind

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.”

Men Home Tree Wind Cold Terrible Hunger Casts Ships Torn Terrible Things

Book:The Well Of Loneliness

Source: The Well Of Loneliness

“She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled.”

People World Made Beautiful Grows Felt Tree Sea Tears Wind Cat Soldier Heat Warmth Butterfly Beautiful Things Wrists Paws Leviathan

Book:The Ghost's Child

Source: The Ghost's Child

“I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.”

Lasts Tree Wind Leafs Lds

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. 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 away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”

Source: Hemingway's Paris

“Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.”

Mind Voice Imagine Tree Feet Creation Wind Rushing

Book:Searching for God Knows What

Source: Searching for God Knows What

“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.”

Night Sound Hurt Dark Tree Wind Arms Listening Cold Balance Ears Rose Get Up Calculations Skulls Blackness Autistic Reckoning Wind In The Trees

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”

Way Made Seems Moving Fall Girl Sound Walks Tree Wind Rain Fixed Dry Autumn Overhead Pavement Autumn Leaves Leaves In The Wind

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?”

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”

Giving Said Wanted House Grows Water Struggle Saws Nice Growing Tree Special Wind Mom Protect Tiny Tall Destroying One Time Old Trees Saplings

Book:The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.”

Strong Worry Pieces Cutting Tree Wind Weakness Shining Grass Branches Thick Brag

Author:Rumi

“With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.”

Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.”

Heart Certain Grows Break Tree Tears Wind Spring Storm Branches Each Day Shed Back Again Greenery Break Off

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.”

Knows World Form Sun Wonderful Tree Wind Built Breaths Blue Instance Dust Evening Gates Gray Rolling Old World Pastures Stallions

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.”

Ifs Years May Two Different Earth Remember Asks Speak Rich Tree Tears Wind Sorrow Drink Breaths Silent Harsh Dew Harsh Words Why Now

Book:The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.”

Believe Tree Wind Blow Temptation Rooted Steadfastness

Book:The Works of John Owen

Source: The Works of John Owen

“February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.”

Writing Heart Shows Eye Earth Fall Black Race Tree Sadness Cry Tears Wind Six Spring Grieving Dry Wheels Bells Wet Shed Ink Falling Down Blackness February Puddles Pears Charcoal Haphazard Slush

Author:Boris Pasternak

“Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again.”

People Looks Left Heard Tree Car Wind Walking Standing Window Snow Awake Dry Silver Metals Roof Shaking Another Day Sparkling Begin Again Left And Right Sensei Chilled Dry Leaves Riverside Bare Trees

Book:Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”

People Ifs Doe Tree Wind Blow Invisible

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Said Running Young Mother Fall Girl Next Strong Grows Growing Tree Wind Standing Weak Tall Weed Crooked Strong Winds Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.”

Looks Ends Pain Suffering Evil Tree Mines Wind Praying Storm Envy Gods Will Pity Fallen I Pray Fallen Trees Evil Look

Book:Guardian

Source: Guardian

“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”

Source: Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1

“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”

Fall Hours Tree Sky Wind Quiet Bird Towns Hot Breaths Clouds Squares Earthquakes Lunchtime Portents

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold