This requires the knowledge of wind dynamics and the complex response of a tree to induced wind force.
It's not that this inspired-by-fact story of celebrated scout and mountain man Hugh Glass and his battle for survival after being chewed up, spit out and left for dead by a particularly enraged bear completely avoids inflated moments, including but not limited to dreams, visions and folk wisdom of "the wind cannot affect a tree with strong roots" variety.
Major life events, good or bad, seldom transform a person; rather, as noted by the author Irène Némirovsky, they just bring one's underlying character into greater relief, "as a strong gust of wind reveals the true shape of a tree when it blows off all its leaves".
Then, toward the end of the picture, by some trick of the light, the rain began again, and the people waved and swam, as if they were drowning fast, and the sound broke down with a harsh cry that turned into a wailing, like the wind in the top branches of a tree.
An old literature mentor used to advise me that when things got really rough to simply look out the window at the wind rustling through the branches of a tree.
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The ability of a tree to withstand wind loads of gale forces depends on its shape and its dimensions.
Since logging injury usually occurs on the lower parts of trunk, wound decay in a tree affects the most valuable timber (Picchio et al. 2011; Tavankar et al. 2013).
Conditions can change in an instant – embers carried on a gust of wind; a burning tree branch cracking and rolling down a hill.
Behind them, Peter Pabst's huge white screen shows footage of trees in the wind, of a rainforest, of celebrations and swimming.
