Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet

“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of trees has a voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flay boughs rise and fall.” (from “Under the Greenwood Tree,” 1872)

June 2, 1840-Jan. 11, 1928