Ancient Quote by Charles Godfrey Leland

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

— Adelaide Crapsey

“Then there was a fine noise of rushing water from the crown of an oak at his back, as if a spigot there had…

— John Cheever

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when…

— Charles Dickens

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing,…

— Alfred de Musset

I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan…

— Henry Van Dyke

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

— Ogden Nash

The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves…

— Anonymous

“The deeper I went into the valley, the greater the rewards. First, it was a clump of birches, the bottoms wrapped in thick fog,…

— Megan Rich

“Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if…

— Marcel Proust

“it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree-tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of…

— Mark Twain

The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

— James Franco