Anguish Quote by Thomas Starr King

We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm…

— May Sarton

“Narrow lanes climb both slopes and come together in a great ring of elm trees which encircles the flat summit. Any wind--even the slightest--draws…

— Richard Adams

“Most often they speak according to their kind – the deep rumble of oak, the whisper of the birch, or the singsong chant of…

— Maryrose Wood

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother…

— Charles Dickens

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams…

— Conrad Aiken

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

— Wallace Stevens

“The Elm Log By Alexander Solzhenitsyn We were sawing firewood when we picked up an elm log and gave a cry of amazement. It…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

— Emily Carr

From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind…

— Hamlin Garland

The pines were roaring on the height, The wind was moaning in the night. The fire was red, it flaming spread; The trees like…

— JRR Tolkien

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the…

— Alice Oswald