# Quote — Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

> To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its 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 flat boughs rise and fall.

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Book: [Under the Greenwood Tree](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/under-the-greenwood-tree.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/under-the-greenwood-tree/to-dwellers-in-a-wood

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> Good, but not religious-good.

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