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)

    “You are wind in a stark tree,
    you are the stark tree unbent,
    you are a strung bow,
    you are an arrow.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)