Browsing Topic Best Wind In The Trees Quotes

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.

For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things – beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees – that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.

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

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.