What is the thesis statement for a windstorm in the forest

A Windstorm in the Forest begins by depicting the wind as a maternal figure. As if tending to children, “the winds go to every tree, fingering every leaf and branch and furrowed bole … [seeking] and [finding] them all, caressing them tenderly, bending them in lusty exercise, stimulating their growth, plucking off a leaf or limb as required” (55). The trees resemble infants who are reliant on their mothers to make them strong, living symbiotically with the wind; the trees eventually reap cool shade, clean oxygen and protection for the soil below in return for the winds’ breezes.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,