Quotes About Wind

Cosa c'è di meglio, in realtà, che starsene la sera accanto al fuoco con un bel libro in mano, mentre il vento sbatte contro le persiane e arde il lume della lampada?

Su voluntad, como el velo de su sombrero sujeto por un cordón, palpita a todos los vientos; siempre hay algún deseo que arrastra y alguna conveniencia social que refrena.

Est-ce que nous voyons la cent millième partie de ce qui existe ? Tenez, voici le vent, qui est la plus grande force de la nature, qui renverse les hommes, abat les édifices, déracine les arbres, soulève la mer en montagnes d'eau, détruit les falaises, et jette aux brisants les grands navires, le vent qui tue, qui siffle, qui gémit, qui mugit, – l'avez-vous vu, et pouvez-vous le voir ? Il existe, pourtant.

Gewahren wir denn wirklich den hundertsten Teil von all dem, was es gibt? Sehen Sie, der Wind, die größte Naturkraft, die Menschen umwirft, Häuser vom Boden fegt, Bäume entwurzelt, das Meer in Wasserbergen aufwühlt, Klippen und Felsen zermalmt und die mächtigsten Schiffe in die Brandung hinaus wirft, der Wind, der tötet, pfeift, stöhnt, brüllt - haben Sie den schon gesehen und können Sie ihn sehen? Und trotzdem ist er doch da.

As the boat bounced from the top of each wave, the wind tore through the hair of the hatless men, and as the craft plopped her stern down again the spray slashed past them. The crest of each of these waves was a hill, from the top of which the men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven. It was probably splendid. It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white and amber.

And as I stood there looking in terror, the wind blew out both the candles in that ancient peaked garret, leaving me in savage and impenetrable darkness with chaos and pandemonium before me, and the demon madness of that night-baying viol behind me.

The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.

The bleak mountain wind, sighing through the olive grove and the tomb-tree, had an uncanny way of forming vaguely articulate sounds.

Der Wind rauscht mit Ihren Stimmen, und die Erde grollt durch Ihren Geist.

my cries were lost in the hell-born babel of the howling wind-wraiths.

The trees budded prematurely around Nahum's, and at night they swayed ominously in the wind. Nahum's second son Thaddeus, a lad of fifteen, swore that they swayed also when there was no wind; but even the gossips would not credit this.

Autumn came, and the leaves in the forest turned to orange and gold. Then, as winter approached, the wind caught them as they fell

Suddenly an ice-cold wind went through the vast hall, and the blind mother could feel that Death had arrived. 'How have you been able to find your way here?' he asked, 'how have you been able to get here faster than I have?' 'I'm a mother, she said.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

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

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees.

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