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Quotes About Wind

A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The wind is calling in a voice I remember.
~ Chris Abani
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.
~ Chris Cleave
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.
~ Chris Gardner
Well, I'm coming with actual rain and wind. It's a whole lot more powerful. Who are you gonna be more intrigued by?
~ Chris Norris
Trouble came their way like sideways wind in winter.
~ Chris Offutt
When God met with Elijah, great signs were manifested but God wasn't in any of them; there was a great wind, an earthquake and a fire.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver either, And all my gold is on the furze That shakes in windy weather Above the rusy heather.
~ Christina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
~ Christina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
~ Christina Rossetti
She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.
~ Christine Feehan
23:07 Captain: Shit, we have everything! 23:14 Mechanical voice alert: Wind shear! Wind shear! Wind shear! 23:17 Captain: Shit, what the hell have these assholes [maintenance] done?
~ Christopher Bartlett
It was snowing when I got off the bus at Flax Hill. Not quite regular snowfall, not exactly a blizzard. This is how it was: The snow came down heavily, settled for about a minute, then the wind moved it - more rolled it, really - onto another target. One minute you were covered in snow, then it sped off sideways, as if a brisk, invisible giant had taken pity and brushed you down.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
~ Henry Beston
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
~ Henry Beston
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.
~ Henry Beston
Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.
~ Henry Beston
I want to walk in the desert tonight. I want the wind to pass over me. I want to let the poison bleed through the soles of my feet into the desert floor. I want to starve the monster. I want to punish it with thoughts of clean night wind. The
~ Henry Rollins
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There he goes, in his long russet surtout, sweeping down yonder gravel-walk, beneath the trees, like a yellow leaf in autumn wafted along by a fitful gust of wind.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Peasants having no clear idea of the cause of rain, say, according to whether they want rain or fine weather: "The wind has blown the clouds away," or, "The wind has brought up the clouds." And in the same way the universal historians sometimes, when it pleases them and fits in with their theory, say that power is the result of events, and sometimes, when they want to prove something else, say that power produces events.
~ Leo Tolstoy