My dad told me wind was 'when the trees were sneezing'.
At the age of fifteen I nearly argued with a teacher at school when she started explaining how wind really works.
A childhood belief about weather
you weren't the only one
47 of you believed this
- I used to believe that, by moving their branches from one side to another, trees made wind.— Pilar
- I used to believe that wind was created by the trees, that it came out of the ends of their branches. — STeve
- I used to believe wind came from trees. And when it was really windy, the trees were really mad.— Tiffany
- When I was a kid I thought that the wind was caused by the trees fanning their leaves...— GDP
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- when I was very young, I used to beleive that the leaves rustling in the trees made the wind blow— Ellona