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)

    As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
    So did I weave myself into the sense.
    George Herbert (1593–1633)