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“Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“In the end words are just wind.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“I am a feather for each wind that blows.” William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
“Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“For raging wind blows up incessant showers, and when the rage allays, the rain begins. ” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“The wind passing through the skins of animals will make men dance.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so. But the wind, which we see not, troubleth and bendeth it as it listeth. We are sorest bent and troubled by invisible hands.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Absence is to love as wind to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.” Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.” John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday
“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Calling cats . . . tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

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