Personality of plants

PERSONALITY OF PLANTS
hoot of Owls is deafening. Jaguars scream as
they chase Monkeys through the tree-tops.
The various members of the plant kingdom
are the principal instruments upon which the
wind plays. Without the obstruction offered
by plants, trees, rocks, and houses, we should
not hear the wind at all. The trees, because of
their size and exposed positions, are most noted
as plant-musicians, but the grasses and herbs
are also very susceptible to the caressings of
the wind.
Who has not heard and gloried in the music
of the Pines? The sharp needles of these big
conifers seem unusually fitted for esthetic ex-
pression. They are the Aeolian harps of the
woods. During a storm, they sing in a mighty
chorus of acclaim. At such a time, the break-
ing of many small branches sounds like the snap-
ping of overstrained violin strings.
Almost any tree located on a cliff or on the
edge of a mountain, becomes a musician of the
first order. It is apt to take on the sorrowful
tendencies of solitude. The weepings, wail-
ings, murmurings, groanings, sighs and whis-
pers of the universe vibrate through its branches.
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