Prevailing Wind

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 (1817–1862)

“The wind blew all my wedding-day,
And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)