When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.
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Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.
Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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