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“Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.”

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.”

Knows Inspirational Should Spirit Attitude Know How Tree Willing Wind Conversation Ocean Endure Cooperation Palms Palm Trees

Book:The Love Dare

Source: The Love Dare

“After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.”

Hard Age Night Cutting Tree Wind Mountain Rain Feathers Rain At Night

Author:W. S. Merwin

“He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!”

Ifs Children Grows Tree Mines Wind Tables Following Hypocrisy Peculiar Unfortunate Twists Crooked Lad Gusto

Book:Wuthering Heights: Classic English Literature

Source: Wuthering Heights: Classic English Literature

“Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind”

Mind Heart Night Water Tree Wind Stones Rose Bones Flesh Heart And Mind

Author:Juliet Marillier

“The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.”

Darkness Doors Tree Sea Wind Moon Riding Purple Moonlight Ribbons Cloudy Inns Moors Highwaymen

Author:Alfred Noyes

“There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.”

Men World May Doe Book Earth Faces Language Chance Magic Tree Fans Land This World Wind Kings Creatures Pages Bird Understood Rain Casts Blow Your Face Void Ravens Wild Creatures

Author:Susanna Clarke

“Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.”

Asks Grows Tree Wind Offers Safe Shadow Roots Green Plant Rounds Delight Ruins Decay Lightning Jane Lighting Vigorous Props Freshness Orchard Chestnuts Rochester

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.”

Long Enough Use Lying Natural Half Trouble Tree Wind Lessons Capacity Green Instinct Blow Charm Get Away Spheres Green Trees

Book:The Essential Margaret Fuller

Source: The Essential Margaret Fuller

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”

Thinking Men Years Children Ends Hands Together Names Stars Water Secret Sun Tree Wind Source Spring Roots Distance Shining Arise Crafts Candle Unborn Syllables Wizardry Unborn Child

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.”

Lying Girl Three Tree Wind Hair Arms Sitting Roots Legs Weeping Shaking Tangled Arms And Legs

Book:Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

“At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.”

Ifs Feels Two Done Night Dark Morning Sun Tree Feet Wind Shadow Window Clock Moonlight Dark Night Deep Dark Glisten

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest”

Hands Three Tree Wind Bed West Clouds East Hills Counting Nests Flew Flocks Geese Cuckoos Tracing Pine Trees One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?”

Fall Poor Tree Cry Tears Wind Burning Autumn Old Woman Howl

Book:The Gormenghast Novels

Source: The Gormenghast Novels

“Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green light falls on the goblin fountain Where hesitant lovers meet and pass. They laugh in the moonlight, touching hands, They move like leaves on the wind ... I remember an autumn night like this, And not so long ago, When other lovers were blown like leaves, Before the coming of snow.”

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”

Light Rich Doors Tree Wind Summer Garden Filled Rose Studios Heavy Delicate Scent Perfume Flowering Lilac Summer Wind

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")”

“Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.”

Spiritual Secret Tree Wind Blame

Author:Khalil Gibran

“No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.”

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.”

Thinking Mind Littles Stills Light Past Voice Memories Dark Sun Tree Wind Forgotten Corners Grass Pleasant Chinks Forgotten Things

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

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

“Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.”

Important Hands Fall Courses Difficult Wonder Gone Tree Wind Bears Glory Red Gold Remains Brilliant Cups Brown Uniqueness Amazed Leafs Desirable Crumbling Tree Of Life Difficult Life

Author:Rob Thurman

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place--some beloved place or tree--we thought you one of these.”

Ifs Remember Stars Known Struggle Tree Havens Mines Wind My Friends Beloved Daily Life Suspicion Sunrise Cheerfulness Pettiness Howards End

Book:Howard's End

Source: Howard's End

“An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. "I guess you think you're pretty great," The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. "And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you've grown so tall." "It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree, "It's just that you've stayed so small.”

“I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. But where The wind is westerly, Where gnarled November makes the spiders fly Into the apparitions of the sky, They purpose nothing but their ease and die Urgently beating east to sunrise and the sea.”

Purpose Dies Saws Air Tree Sea Sky Wind East Ease Latter Swimming Sunrise Spiders August November Barns Hay Apparitions

Author:Robert Lowell

“Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.”

Whole Tree Advice Mankind Wind Wind In The Trees

Author:Claude Debussy

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