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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