Famous quotes containing the words prevailing and/or wind:
“We saw many straggling white pines, commonly unsound trees, which had therefore been skipped by the choppers; these were the largest trees we saw; and we occasionally passed a small wood in which this was the prevailing tree; but I did not notice nearly so many of these trees as I can see in a single walk in Concord.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Over me the wind swirls.
I have stood on your portal
and I know
you are further than this,
still further on another cliff.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)