Trees Quote by Thomas Hardy

“I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“A tree’s nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.”

— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“The trees on either side were very tall and thin, like long, skeletal fingers reaching to the sky. The few remaining leaves were still…

— S.J. Bolton

“The wind rose high and free, to soar in an open sky with no clouds. It passed over a broken landscape scattered with corpses…

— Brandon Sanderson

“It had been a windy night, that night where his life had taken its turning. The atmosphere, in flood, was trying to wash the…

— Michael Shea

“Even the wind carries the memory of forests long gone.”

— Lawrence Nault

“All the trees, with all their laden branches; all the shrubs, and ferns, and grasses; the message-carrying air; all these unceasingly were active.”

— Herman Melville

“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...”

— Fredrik Backman

Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.”

— Natsume Sōseki

“The image of him shifted with the violent frenzy of leaves. He was there and he wasn’t, as the leaves whipped and the lightning…

— Gwenn Wright